[Rarebooks] fa: THE CRIES OF YORK for the AMUSEMENT OF CHILDREN ca. 1811 (Street vendors/Woodcuts)

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

The Cries of York. (In two Parts.) For the Amusement of Young Children. (Part I.) Decorated with Cuts from Life. York: Printed by J. Kendrew, Collier-gate, [ca. 1811?]. Small 12mo (12 cm) in early/original plain wraps; woodcut illustrations; 15 pp. (including the frontispiece).

Part I only, but we can find no listings in OCLC to indicate that a separate Part II was ever published. A collection of thirteen charming depictions of street vendors and their locales, accompanied by their cries: Cockles, Alive, alive O; Ripe Goosberries; Buy my windmills a halfpenny a piece; Kidney Potatoes; Oysters! Sweet China Oranges; Razors-Knives and Scissors to Grind; Buy my fine Larks; etc. Light staining to the wraps, mild toning to the leaves, earlier bookdealer's penciled notation to the title-page, otherwise clean and sound, securely bound. The first leaf and last leaf are affixed to the inside of the wraps, as in other copies found in OCLC. Quite uncommon.