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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