March’s New Cries Of London
Even though it is nine months since my CRIES OF LONDON book came out, yet I still cannot resist collecting more, especially when they are as appealing as those in this lovingly-handmade booklet from the early nineteenth century that I acquired for just a couple of pounds recently. The street names in the background of these images fascinate me, and I wonder if that is ‘White Hart Court’ Bishopsgate, in the first picture?
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You may like to explore these sets of Cries of London
More John Player’s Cries of London
More Samuel Pepys’ Cries of London
Geoffrey Fletcher’s Pavement Pounders
William Craig Marshall’s Itinerant Traders
H.W.Petherick’s London Characters
John Thomson’s Street Life in London
Aunt Busy Bee’s New London Cries
William Nicholson’s London Types
Francis Wheatley’s Cries of London
John Thomas Smith’s Vagabondiana of 1817
John Thomas Smith’s Vagabondiana II
John Thomas Smith’s Vagabondiana III
Thomas Rowlandson’s Lower Orders
Love the man with lobsters on his head. And the idea of “flying dustmen”.
These are absolutely wonderful – perhaps a Gentle Author’s Cries of London vol 2 beckons?
This reminds me of a book for children and one that doesn’t patronise.
The reference to the new law on use of child chimney sweeps brings to mind something I discovered through some recent research, which was the boys were cheaper to ‘buy’ than newly developed technology in brush design. Thank goodness for philanthropic influence on employment law.
I took note of the background detail in these illustrations as directed and was amused by the ‘bustle making’ service advertised in ‘Buy a Broom’. I hope the proprietors were able to turn their hands to other fashions when bustles went out.
Lucky you buying that for a few pounds. Volume 2 of the Cries of London sounds a good idea.