THE CRIES of LONDON, as they are daily exhibited in the Streets with an Epigram in Verse adapted to each. Embellished with fifty-two elegant Cuts. To which is added a Description of the Metropolis in Verse. [Price Sixpence.]
London: F. Newbery. At the Corner of St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1775. 133, [6 ad’s] pages. Woodcut frontispiece and 61 full-page wood-engravings of cries. Original Dutch floral boards. 32mo. 106 x 70 mm. Contained in a modern morocco-backed folding box. Ink inscription on front pastedown "Betsey Brown Janr.1th 1778. Sent from London by Cousin John Surridge." Blank corner lost from one leaf; small chip to the blank margin of another leaf; back strip repaired; few incidental marks; juvenile scribble on rear pastedown; else a very good copy of a rare title. Roscoe lists an advertisement for the book dated 1771, but the 1775 edition seems to be the earliest known. Roscoe locates 4 copies, one of which is imperfect (Osborne). ESTC records 3 copies in North America but none in the UK. .