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"Just published, by Johnson and Warner ..."--advertisement, back cover, pts. I and IV Cover imprint varies: Philadelphia: Published by Johnson & Warner, no. 147, Market Street. 1813. Part I[-IV] Metal-engraved plates are included in pagination. Some plates are signed: W.R. [i.e., William Ralph]. An engraving of Benjamin Johnson's bookstore appears in part 1, on the leaf following p. 4 Part 1: 4, [2], 5-6, [2], 7-37, [1] p.; part 2: 36 p.; part 3: 41, [1] p.; part 4: 36, [2] p Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 249.16 A poetical description of the British metropolis -- New mackarel -- Three a penny oysters -- Will you buy a roasting-jack? -- Muffins, crumpets? -- Sprats as big as herrings! Sprats all alive, Ho! -- Fine flowers, madam -- Shoe strings, a penny a pair -- Apples all hot, and ready roasted -- Buy my 'live geese; geese all alive ho! -- Rare green gooseberries; a penny a pint, gooseberries -- Green and large cucumbers -- Hot spice gingerbread, smoking hot -- Sixpence a pound, rare ripe filberts -- Buy a lobster: buy a'live lobster -- White conduit loaves -- Come buy my jemmies, my pretty little tartars -- New potatoes, three pounds for two-pence -- Young lambs to sell ... -- New almanacks, new; some lies, and some true -- Buy a mat, or a hair broom -- Past eleven o'clock -- Do you want any good matches? -- Singing birds -- Buy my live plaice or flounders -- Gingerbread nuts ... -- Scarlet strawberries -- Green hastings -- Fine images -- Any work for the cooper? -- A groat a pound, eels -- Come buy my water cresses. Electronic text and image data Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
