Old London Street Cries and the Cries of To-day / With Heaps of Quaint Cuts Including Hand-coloured Frontispiece

“ Flowers, penny a bunch.
AND THE CRIES OF TO-DAY WITH
INCLUDING Hand-coloured Frontispiece : BY Andrew W. Tuer, Author of “Bartolozzi and his Works,” &c.
PRINTED AT THE LEADENHALL PRESS, LONDON, E.C. T 4,237.

THE “Cries” have been sufficiently well received in bolder form to induce the publication of this additionally illustrated extension at a more popular price.

DATES, unless in the form of the luscious fruit of Smyrna, are generally dry. It is enough therefore to state that the earliest mention of London Cries is found in a quaint old ballad entitled “London Lyckpenny,” or Lack penny, by that prolific writer, John Lydgate, a Benedictine monk of Bury St. Edmunds, who flourished about the middle of the fifteenth century.
These cries are particularly quaint, and especially valuable as a record of the daily life of the time.

“ I love a Ballad in print, a’life; for then we are sure they are true. ”—Winter’s Tale, Act. iv., Sc. iv.