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Hogarth’s Pieman.
“We frequently meet with the pieman in old prints; and, in Hogarth’s‘March to Finchley,’ there he stands in the very centre of the crowd,grinning with delight at the adroitness of one robbery, while he ishimself the victim of another. We learn from this admirable figure by thegreatest painter of English life, that the pieman of the last centuryperambulated the streets in professional costume; and we gather further,from the burly dimensions of his wares, that he kept his trade alive bythe laudable practice of giving ‘a good pennyworth for a penny.’ Justicecompels us to observe that his successors of a later generation have notbeen very conscientious observers of this maxim.”
A HISTORY
OF THE
CRIES OF LONDON.
Ancient and Modern.
| “Let none despise the merry, merry Cries Of famous London Town.” |
SECOND EDITION.
GREATLY ENLARGED AND CAREFULLY REVISED
BY
CHARLES HINDLEY, Esq.,
Editor of “The Old Book Collector’s Miscellany; or, a Collection of Readable Reprints
of Literary Rarities,” “Works of John Taylor—the Water Poet,” “The
Roxburghe Ballads,” “The Catnach Press,” “The Curiosities of
Street Literature,” “The Book of Ready Made Speeches,”
“Life and Times of James Catnach, late of the
Seven Dials, Ballad Monger,” “Tavern
Anecdotes and Sayings,” etc.
London:
CHARLES HINDLEY
[The Younger,]
BOOKSELLERS’ ROW, ST. CLEMENT DANES,
STRAND, W. C.
London:—
E. A. BECKETT, PRINTER, 111 & 113 KINGSLAND ROAD.
TO
HORATIO NOBLE PYM, Esq.,
OF
HARLEY STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE,
AS
A TESTIMONIAL OF ESTEEM
For His Private Worth,
AND AS
A PATRON OF LITERATURE:
A HISTORY OF THE CRIES OF LONDON,
Ancient and Modern,
Is Respectfully Dedicated by
Rectory Road, Stoke Newington,
London, N.