Old London street cries and the cries of to-day : with heaps of quaint cuts including hand-coloured frontispiece / by Andrew W. Tuer.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:William D. and Helen M. Chase Collection.
Main Author: Tuer, Andrew White, 1838-1900 (Author)
Corporate Author: Leadenhall Press (Publisher)
Other Authors: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 (Illustrator)
Language:English
Published: London : New York : Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press : Simpkin, Marshall & Co. : Hamilton, Adams & Co. ; Scribner & Welford, 1885.
Series:William D. and Helen M. Chase Collection.
Subjects:
Cries > England > London.
Peddlers and peddling > England > London.
London (England) > Social life and customs.
Cries.
England > London.
Street vendors
Hand coloring.
Case bindings.
Marbled paper bindings.
Printed paper binding labels.
Advertisements > England > London > 19th century.
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Genre:
Hand coloring.
Case bindings.
Marbled paper bindings.
Printed paper binding labels.
Advertisements
Ownership and Custodial History:
Inscription on recto of front free endpaper: "W D Chase, Los Angeles, 28 Jan 1984"
Material laid in: Two clipped newpaper articles reviewing children's lectures by Sir Frederick Bridge about the street cries of Shakespeare's London (one clipping inscribed "Times, 7/1/79 [?]"; the other also evidently from a UK paper). Two clippings from an unidentified 20th-century UK bookseller's catalog advertising the sale of two Andrew Tuer books, including this one (though evidently not this copy) and his "History of the horn book". All laid-in materials removed and now available in MSS 466.
Local Note:
MSU: Gift of William D. and Helen M. Chase.
Binding Information:
In publisher's full marbled paper over paste-boards; printed paper label on upper board, with title "Old London Cries" and "Price one shilling."
Physical Description:137 pages : illustrations (1 color) ; 14 cm
Variant Title:
Old London cries [Cover title]
Format: Book

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