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Singerman ID#supp0179

The New London Cries; or, A Visit to Town. Embellished with Eight Colored Engravings. William Raine’s Edition.

Singerman Entry

Singerman ID#supp0179

The New London Cries; or, A Visit to Town. Embellished with Eight Colored Engravings. William Raine’s Edition. Baltimore: Printed & Published by Wm. Raine, [between 1840 and 1842?]. [8] leaves.

Notes

Includes the street cry, with accompanying hand-colored illustration, of an "Old Clothes" Jew. MWA holds two variant copies (in one, "Old Clothes" is the fifth leaf and in the other, it is leaf six). See, additionally, Karen F. Beall, Kaufrufe und Straßenhändler: eine Bibliographie. Cries and Itinerant Trades: A Bibliography (Hamburg, 1975), entry E88.