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Smith, John Thomas : The Cries of London: Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times

John Bowyer Nichols & Son., London, 1839

Contemporary half-morocco and cloth boards. Spine with 6 compartments of raised bands with floral design in gilt, title in gilt on two., Slightly worn, some light foxing and browning mostly on the margins otherwise a very good copy., folio, P. half title, printer’s imprint, blank, frontis copper engraved portrait of author engraved by W. Skelton from a drawing by J, Jackson, title, printer’s imprint, advertisment, blank, vii-xv, blank, 99, advertisment, Engraved portrait and 30 full page “etchings” by the author.

With Edward Langdon’s bookplate. Smith was a well known draughtsman and antiquary who became the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum.
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The book depicts London during Dickens' lifetime in prints

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