Old London Street Cries, and the Cries of To-Day With Heaps of Quaint Cuts
Author:
TUER, ANDREW W
Title:
Old London Street Cries, and the Cries of To-Day With Heaps of Quaint Cuts
Publisher:
1885. London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C / Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Hamilton, Adams & Co. New York: Scribner & Welford
Description:
FIRST EDITION, duodecimo, patterned heavy boards, black lettering to spine- mostly missing, black lettering to title plate to front board, string ties to board fore-edges, deckled page edges, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 137pp, illus, G (spine mostly missing with heavy but tidy archival tape reinforcement, moderate chafing to boards, moderate tanning & light chipping to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters & archival tape repairs) an adorable wee book, a lovely collectable item!
Keywords:
first editions literature old London city history historical markets traders whimsy