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Hawkers, Beggars and Quacks - Portraits from The Cries of London (Hardcover)
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Hawkers, Beggars and Quacks - Portraits from The Cries of London (Hardcover)
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'Buy my Dish of great Eeles, Any Old Iron take money for, Twelve
Pence a Peck Oysters, Buy my fat Chickens, Fair Lemons &
Oranges' Marcellus Laroon's 'The Cryes of the City of London drawne
after the Life' presents, in seventy-four striking portraits, a
panorama of London's marginal men and women: street vendors,
hustlers and petty criminals together with the shouts (or cries)
they used to hawk their wares, as they existed at the end of the
seventeenth century. Following an illustrated introduction which
sets Laroon's engravings within the tradition of the Cries, each
portrait is beautifully reproduced with a commentary that
illuminates the individual street-seller and their trade. The
commentaries provide a wealth of detail about their dress, the
equipment they used to ply their trade, the meat and drink of those
they served and their own diets. This book also mines historical
archives for contemporary reports about the colourful and often
desperate lives of these hawkers. Drawing on the historic material
found in the Burney Collection of English newspapers, this book
provides a fascinating insight into the men and women who made
their livelihood, legally and illegally, on the streets of
England's capital.
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