Vagabondiana;
OR,
ANECDOTES OF
ITINERANT TRADERS
THROUGH THE STREETS OF
LONDON,
IN ANTIENT AND MODERN TIMES.
VOLUME II.
BY
JOHN THOMAS SMITH.
London:
J. B. NICHOLS AND SON.
1839.
Printed by J. B. Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament-street.
THE CRIES OF LONDON:
EXHIBITING SEVERAL OF THE
ITINERANT TRADERS OF ANTIENT AND MODERN TIMES.
COPIED FROM RARE ENGRAVINGS, OR DRAWN FROM THE LIFE,
BY
JOHN THOMAS SMITH,
LATE KEEPER OF THE PRINTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
WITH A MEMOIR AND PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR.
LONDON:
JOHN BOWYER NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET.
1839.
Printed by J. B. Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament-street.
The present work was some years since prepared for the press by its lateingenious author, who engraved all the plates for it himself, thirteen ofwhich are copied from early prints, and the rest sketched from the life.It will easily be perceived how much superior the latter are to theformer.
The descriptions of the plates were also prepared by Mr. Smith, and hadthe benefit of revision by the late Francis Douce, Esq. F.S.A.
These spirited etchings having become the property of the present Editor,they are now for the first time submitted to the public; who will, it ishoped, consider this volume an appropriate companion to Mr. Smith’s“Vagabondiana; or, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets ofLondon,” which work was honoured by a masterly Introduction from the penof Mr. Douce.
The Editor has taken the liberty, occasionally, to adapt the letter-pressto the present day; but the reader will kindly bear in mind that the workwas written several years since; and that in the interval many changeshave taken place, which it was not thought necessary to point out.
J. B. Nichols.
May, 1839.
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| MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, with a Portrait | ix | |
| INTRODUCTION | 1 | |
| Plates. | ANTIENT TRADES. | |
| I. | WATCHMAN, from a rare woodcut temp. James I. | 13 |
| II. | BELLMAN, from a work entitled “Villanies discovered by Lanthorne and Candle Light” | 14 |
| III. | BILL-MAN, from ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |