The New York Cries, in Rhyme
Publisher Samuel P. Brown American
Not on view
This pamphlet-style children's book has a cream paper cover adorned with a wood engraving of boys picking apples. A front yellow flyleaf is printed with cartouche and bouquets and inscribed with early owner's name. Four pages of cries follow, mostly printed from the blocks used to create Mahlon Day's "Cries of New York" (first ed. 1824, reissued 1835; see 54.90.1619). New here is an image of a woman selling fruit titled "Buy Here." The remaining illustrations represent sellers of mats, milk, sand, beans & peas, potatoes, brooms, hot corn, radishes, matches, oranges, strawberries, radishes, and clams, and show figures offering services: a knife or scissor grinder, chimney sweep and locksmith. A yellow back flyleaf is illustrated with a wood engraving of a family in an interior.
