Buy this book on-line Marcellus Laroon; Pierce Tempest : The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life. / Les Cris de la Ville de Londres Dessignez après La Nature. / L’Arti Comuni che vanno di Londra Fatte dal Naturale. P. Tempest execudit
no imprint, London, c. 1711
Contemporary full speckled calf tastefully rebacked in six compartments of raised blind-tooled bands, gilt floral motifs in each compartment, gilt red and green morocco labels on two and four respectively, endpapers marbled. , A few minor stains and some blemishes, margins of two plates restored, three large tears extending into image restored, 37 insignificant tears to plate margins, most of which have been repaired, and the “Famous Dutch Woman” plate has been torn straight across with a very minor portion of the woman’s leg redrawn in ink; otherwise a very good copy, plates are generally clean and crisp., 4to. , P. (2), engr. title, 37 plates, engr. title, 36 plates, (2)., With 73 (of 74) copper engraved plates, including two engraved title pages, all depicting generally lower classes of late-17th century London. , Volume : Two volumes in one.
Titles and captions in English, French and Italian. This is the rare first edition, with much finer impressions than are found in the second and later editions. Marcellus Laroon (1653-1702) was a painter and engraver from the Netherlands who moved to London where he “became well known for small portraits and conversation pieces…. He also painted numerous small pictures of humourous or free subjects”. Laroon was best known for his series of drawings, “The Cryes of London,” later engraved and published by Pierce Tempest (DNB XI:595). Tempest (1653-1717) established himself as a book and printseller in the Strand in London around 1680. “He is best known by the celebrated ‘Cryes of the City of London,’ which he published in 1711, a series of seventy-four portraits … of itinerant dealers and other remarkable characters who at that time frequented the streets of the metropolis.” (DNB XIX:494) Brunet indicates that the first edition of 1711 lacked Henry Overton’s imprint as well as individual plate numbers; however, it has been said that Brunet misunderstood the publication sequence.
Total: 2 title pages and 71 other engraved plates
First Title Page
1. A Sow Gelder 2. London Curtezan 3. Madam Creswell 4. Chimney Sweep 5. Maids any Cunny Skinns 6. Ha Ha Ha Poor Jack 7. Buy a Fork or a Fire Shovel 8. Small Coale 9. Buy my Dish of great Eeles 10. Litty White Vinagar 3 pence a quart 11. Fair Lemons & Oranges 12. Knives or Cifers to Grinde 13. Buy my fine singing Glasses 14. The merry Milk Maid 15. Old Chaires to mend 16. Buy any Wax or Waters 17. Any work for John Cooper 18. Six pence a pound fair Cherryes 19. Fine Writeing Inke 20. Hott Bak`d Wardens Hott 21. Buy a fine Singing Bird 22. Cotty Motty Puffe 23. The famous Dutch Woman 24. Mountabanck 25. Buy my 4 Roped of hard Onyons 26. Any Card Matches or Savealls 27. A Bed Matt or a Door Matt 28. 4 Paire for a Shilling Holland Socks 29. Buy a White Line, a Jack Line, or a Cloathes Line 30. Buy a new Almanack 31. Buy my Flounders 32. Delicate Cowcumbers to pickle 33. Old Cloaks Suits or Coats 34. Londons Gazette here 35. Any Bakeing Peares 36. New River Water
Second Title Page
37. Four for Six pence Mackell 38. Twelve Pence a Peck Oysters 39. Old Satten Old Jaffety or Velvet 40. Knives Combs or Inkhornes 41. Buy a fine Table Basket 42. Old Shooes for Some Broomes 43. Ripe Speragas 44. Buy my fat Chickens 45. Long Threed Laces Long & Strong 46. Troope every one one 47. Ripe Strawverryes 48. The Famous Dutch Woman 49. A Merry new Song 50. Merry Andrew on the Stage 51. Oh Rare Shoe 52. Crab Crab any Crab 53. Pretty Maids Pretty Pinns Pretty Women 54. Any Kitchin Stuffe have you maids 55. Josephus Ctericus 56. CLARK the English Posture Master 57. Maid buy a Mapp 58. A Nonconformist Minister 59. Frater Mendicans 60. Remember the Poor Prisoners 61. The London Begger 62. The merry Fidler 63. Merry Andrew 64. The Spanish Don 65. John the Quaker 66. The London Quaker 67. Oliver C: Porter 68. The Squire of Alsatia 69. Buy my Dutch Biskets 70. A Brafs Pott or an Iron Pott to mend 71. Buy a Rabbet a Rabbet , Brunet III:882; DNB XI:595 & XIX:494; Colas 1793; Vinet 2188.
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Marcellus Laroon; Pierce Tempest : The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life. / Les Cris de la Ville de Londres Dessignez après La Nature. / L’Arti Comuni che vanno di Londra Fatte dal Naturale. P. Tempest execudit is listed for sale on Bibliophile Bookbase by Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books.
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