The Cries of London, or, Child's moral instructor : for the use of schools, private families, governesses, tutors, &c. : decorated with 32 copper plates, elegantly engraved; with a moral and emblematical description of each particular story; intended at once to make instruction pleasing; and unite humour with decency.

Accession number: 
PML 81988
Published: 
London : Printed & sold by Edwd. Ryland, Printer, in the Old Bailey, [ca. 1760]
Description: 
[2], 56+ p., 32 leaves of plates : ill. (etchings and engravings) ; 11 cm
Credit: 
Purchased as the gift of The Viscount Astor, 1975.
Notes: 

At foot of t.p.: Price 1s Plain, 2s Colour'd.
Date from Gottlieb.
Imperfect: P. 3,4 and all after p. 56 lacking, including plates 31 and 32.
PML copy: Vol. II only. Some ills. hand-colored.
T.p. engraved.

Binding: 
Dutch floral boards; in case.
Variant Title: 

Child's moral instructor

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