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Cries of London
Modern London; being the history and present state of the British Metropolis. [including] Description of the Plates, Representing the Itinerant Traders of London in Their Ordinary Costume. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804
4to. (265mm x 220mm). (Engraved folding frontispiece, folding map, 52 copperplates (including 31 finely hand colored plates of Itinerant traders.) 3/4 mottled calf over marbled boards by Root and Son. Closed tears to folding plates, faint offsetting onto text from plates, rubbing to marbled boards especially the rear cover, withal a very good copy.
First edition, first issue. The Cries, each in an identified setting, were drawn by William Marshall Craig, a fashionable miniature painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1788 to 1827 and was appointed painter in water-colours to Queen Charlotte.
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