TEMPEST PIERCE; after LAURON MARCELLUS The Cryes of the City

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TEMPEST, PIERCE; after LAURON, MARCELLUS. The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life. 74 numbered engraved plates, including two titles, each with captions in English, French, and Italian. Folio, 11 1/2x8 inches, modern half morocco with gilt spine labels; plates tipped to leaves of high-quality modern rag laid paper; minor scattered foxing, loss of the lower margin including caption and imprint of the second plate (A Sow Gelder), other margins amply present and generally outside of the platemark. London: Henry Overton, [1711]

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Finely engraved plates illustrating the costumes, wares, talents, and propensities of 17th-century London's peddlers, beggars, traders and other itinerant street characters.