London cries for children : with twenty elegant wood cuts. Johnson & Warner's juvenile library
Bibliographic Citation:
London cries for children : with twenty elegant wood cuts. Philadelphia : Published by Johnson & Warner, No. 147, Market Street, 1810 ([Philadelphia] : John Bouvier, printer)
Alternative Title:
Cries of London
Publisher:
Published by Johnson & Warner, No. 147, Market Street, 1810
Notes:
  • First sentence: "These radishes, so fair and round, to please the palate will be found; fourteen a penny is the price, you'll surely buy, they are so nice."
  • Includes 20 woodcuts.
  • Contents: Radishes -- Mutton dumplings! -- Extradordinary news! -- Hot cross buns! -- Herrings -- Bedstead, buy dolls' bedsteads! -- Hot spice gingerbread, all hot! -- Wild duck or a fat chicken -- The king's speech! -- Come buy nice young water cresses -- Buy a mop, brush, or hair broom? -- Rare marrowfat pease! -- A groat a pound black heart cherries! -- Rabbits -- Sweep soot O! Sweep for your soot -- Flowers -- Milk -- The dust man.
  • Citations/References: Shaw & Shoemaker 20586
  • Citations/References: Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 249.12
  • Citations/References: Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 421
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: woodcut frontispiece; title-page cut & 1/2 page woodcut for each of the 18 cries. Pink paper over card covers. Early American Children's Books - Rosenbach - #421. Bibliography of American Children's Books prior to 1821 - D'alte Welch - #249.12. Hobbyhorse Books. Ho Ho Kus, N.J. Sept/91. $250.00 Given to McGill 2001.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 14 cm.
Language:
English
Chapbook Category:
Metrical Tales and Other Verse
Digital Collection:
McGill Library's Chapbook Collection
Sponsor:
The McGill Library's Chapbook Collection was made possible through a generous donation from the Harold Crabtree Foundation.
Copyright:
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Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_J6_L6_1810