The cryes of the city of London : drawne after the life : in 74 copper plates = Les cris de la ville de Londres : dessignez apres la nature = L'arti com[m]uni che uanno p[er] Londra : fatte dal naturale / P. Tempest excudit.
1711
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Title
The cryes of the city of London : drawne after the life : in 74 copper plates = Les cris de la ville de Londres : dessignez apres la nature = L'arti com[m]uni che uanno p[er] Londra : fatte dal naturale / P. Tempest excudit.
Uniform title
Cryes of the city of London
Spine title
Tempests cryes of London
Created/published
London : Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate, 1711.
Description
74 leaves : all ill. ; 31 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Laroon, Marcellus, 1653-1702, artist, author.
Savage, John, active 1680, printmaker.
Tempest, Pierce, 1653-1717, publisher.
Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676-1751, bookseller, printer.
Savage, John, active 1680, printmaker.
Tempest, Pierce, 1653-1717, publisher.
Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676-1751, bookseller, printer.
Language Note
Captions in English, French, and Italian.
Note
In imprint, "London" follows "Newgate."
Leaves lettered: MLauron delin. P. Tempest exc. Cum privilegio.
"Cum privilegio"--Title page.
First edition 1688. In the present edition some of the plates have been altered to bring the costume into the fashion of the time of re-publication. See Tuer, A. Old London street cries. London : Field & Tuer, 1885, page 7.
Wholly engraved; Seventy-four numbered plates including 2 title pages (1 and 37).
The plates were engraved by John Savage. See Oxford dictionary of national biography under Tempest, Pierce.
Leaves lettered: MLauron delin. P. Tempest exc. Cum privilegio.
"Cum privilegio"--Title page.
First edition 1688. In the present edition some of the plates have been altered to bring the costume into the fashion of the time of re-publication. See Tuer, A. Old London street cries. London : Field & Tuer, 1885, page 7.
Wholly engraved; Seventy-four numbered plates including 2 title pages (1 and 37).
The plates were engraved by John Savage. See Oxford dictionary of national biography under Tempest, Pierce.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs. Opening: Plate 16.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue, N505908
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London, -- publication place.
Item Details
Call number
DA688 .L2 Cage (folio)
Folger-specific note
In early red leather (goatskin) inboard binding with gold tooling and titling; edges gilt. Bookseller's ticket: Upham & Beet, 46 New Bond St., London. Interleaved.
Folger accession
151251