Lot 117: TEMPEST, PIERCE.

THE CRYES OF THE CITY OF LONDON DRAWNE AFTER LIFE. .LONDON..: HENRY OVERTON, 1733.
Folio (310 x 190mm.), 2 engraved pictorial titles, 72 engraved plates by Tempest after Marcellus Laroon, marginal doodle in pencil at foot of plate 11 in imitation of the subject, a few explanatory notes in pencil, nineteenth-century speckled calf, covers with double fillet borders in blind, spine gilt, first title slightly soiled, plate 22 torn, minor marginal dampstaining towards end

Colas 1794; cf. Lipperheide 1019 (earlier edition of 1711)

5th Earl of Rosebery, armorial bookplate

A rare collection of plates showing the costumes of London tradespeople, including pedlars, chimney sweeps, acrobats, beggars and so on.