Chapter 5

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The Signs of Old Lombard Street.ByF. G. Hilton Price, F.S.A., with Sixty full-page 4to Illustrations byJames West. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.[One Guinea.

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Gray’s Elegy:with Sixteen beautiful Illustrations byNorman Prescott Davies, facsimiled from his original drawings in the possession, and published by the gracious permission, ofH.R.H. The Princess of Wales. Bound in gold lettered vellum, with broad silken bands and strings. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.[One Guinea.

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(Dedicated by gracious permission to Her Majesty the Queen.)

Bartolozzi and his Works.(New Edition.) Biographical, Anecdotal, and Descriptive. ByAndrew W. Tuer. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.[Twelve-and-Sixpence.

Bartolozzi and his Works.(New Edition.) Biographical, Anecdotal, and Descriptive. ByAndrew W. Tuer. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.

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Aguide to the study of old-fashioned prints of the Bartolozzi school. Revised with new and interesting matter: in one thick handsome vellum-bound volume, gold lettered, broad silken bands and strings.Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies.

Views of English Society. By a little Girl of Eleven. Illustrated. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E. C. [Two-and-Eightpence.

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The Bairns’ Annual: for 1886-7.Edited byAlice Corkran. Illustrated with marginal sketches of child life byLizzie Lawson. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.[Sixteen-Pence.

The Bairns’ Annual: for 1886-7.Edited byAlice Corkran. Illustrated with marginal sketches of child life byLizzie Lawson. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.

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SAMUEL RICHARDSON.

Sir Charles Grandison.BySamuel Richardson. With Six Illustrations from the original copper-plates engraved in 1778 byIsaac Taylor; and a Preface byJohn Oldcastle. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.[Sixteen-Pence.

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Solomon Gessner, “The Swiss Theocritus.” With Six Illustrations and Extra Portrait from the Original Copper-plates engraved in 1802 byRobert Cromek, from Drawings byThomas Stothard, R.A., and a Preface byJohn Oldcastle. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.[Sixteen-Pence.

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The Follies and Fashions of Our Grand-Fathers(1807). Embellished with Thirty-seven whole-page Plates, including Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Dress (hand-coloured and heightened with gold and silver), Sporting and Coaching Scenes (hand-coloured), Fanciful Prints, Portraits of Celebrities, etc. (many from original copper-plates). ByAndrew W. Tuer, author of “Bartolozzi and his Works,’ etc. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.Large paper copies, crown 4to, withearliest impressionsof the plates; 250 only, signed and numbered, at Three Guineas.Demy 8vo copies at Twenty-five Shillings.

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1,000 Quaint Cuts from Books of Other Days, including Amusing Illustrations from Children’s Story Books, Fables, Chap-books, etc., etc.; a Selection of Pictorial Initial Letters and Curious Designs and Ornaments, from Original Wooden Blocks belonging to The Leadenhall Press. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.[Sixteen-Pence.A limited number printed on one side of the paper only at Two-and-Eightpence.

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Amongst the Shans:By A. R.Colquhoun, F.R.G.S., etc., Author of “Across Chrysê,” “The Truth about Tonquin,” “The Opening of China,” “Burma and the Burmans,” &c. With upwards of Fifty Illustrations, and an Historical Sketch of the Shans byHolt S. Hallett, preceded by an Introduction on the “Cradle of the Shan Race,” byTerrien de Lacouperie. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.[Twenty-one Shillings.

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Izaak Walton: his Wallet Book, being the Songs in “The Compleat Angler” newly set forth and Illustrated byJoseph Crawhall. Hand-made paper; vellum bound, with inside humorously lettered silk-sewn pockets.Edition de luxe, limited and numbered. The numerous illustrations all separately hand-coloured. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.[One Guinea (500 Copies only); Large Paper, Two Guineas (100 copies only).ONE of Mr. Crawhall’s engraved blocks—that is, the boxwood block itself—is attached as a pendant to a silk bookmarker toeach copy of the large paper edition only.

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Our Grandmothers’ Gowns.By Mrs.Alfred W. Hunt.With Twenty-four Hand-coloured Illustrations, drawn byG. R. Halkett.LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.[Seven-and-Sixpence.

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FOOTNOTES:[1]On the bough.[2]Candlewick.[3]Rushes green.[4]Mr. J. E. Gardner’s collection of prints and drawings illustrating London, and numbering considerably over 120,000, contains many fine prints illustrating Old London Cries, including numerous examples of the alterations here indicated.[5]“The Cries of London:” Copied from rare engravings or drawn from the life by John Thomas Smith, late Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum, 1839. On inquiring at the Print Department of the British Museum for a copy of this work, the attendant knew nothing of it, and was quite sure the department had no such book. It turned up on a little pressure, however, but the leaves were uncut.—Les morts vont vite![6]See Appendix.[7]See page 125.[8]“The best wigs are those made in Great Britain; they beat the French and German ones all to sticks.”The Book of Aphorisms, by a modern Pythagorean, 1834.[9]Francis Grose tells us, in 1796, that some trades have from time immemorial invoked musical assistance,—such as those of pie, post, and dust men, who ring a bell.My bell I keep ringingAnd walk about merrily singingMy muffins.[10]“Degeneration amongst Londoners.” By James Cantlie, M.A., M.B., F.R.C.S. One Shilling. The Leadenhall Press, E.C.[11]Hammersmith.[12]See p. 29.

FOOTNOTES:

[1]On the bough.

[2]Candlewick.

[3]Rushes green.

[4]Mr. J. E. Gardner’s collection of prints and drawings illustrating London, and numbering considerably over 120,000, contains many fine prints illustrating Old London Cries, including numerous examples of the alterations here indicated.

[5]“The Cries of London:” Copied from rare engravings or drawn from the life by John Thomas Smith, late Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum, 1839. On inquiring at the Print Department of the British Museum for a copy of this work, the attendant knew nothing of it, and was quite sure the department had no such book. It turned up on a little pressure, however, but the leaves were uncut.—Les morts vont vite!

[6]See Appendix.

[7]See page 125.

[8]“The best wigs are those made in Great Britain; they beat the French and German ones all to sticks.”The Book of Aphorisms, by a modern Pythagorean, 1834.

[9]Francis Grose tells us, in 1796, that some trades have from time immemorial invoked musical assistance,—such as those of pie, post, and dust men, who ring a bell.My bell I keep ringingAnd walk about merrily singingMy muffins.

[9]Francis Grose tells us, in 1796, that some trades have from time immemorial invoked musical assistance,—such as those of pie, post, and dust men, who ring a bell.

My bell I keep ringingAnd walk about merrily singingMy muffins.

[10]“Degeneration amongst Londoners.” By James Cantlie, M.A., M.B., F.R.C.S. One Shilling. The Leadenhall Press, E.C.

[11]Hammersmith.

[12]See p. 29.

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