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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Cries of London
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More than 150 of the calls of street-sellers hawking their wares in the capital were collected before they ceased to be heard, and they have sometimes been incorporated by English composers in their works. The phrase was used as the title for several series of prints of itinerant traders. The best known are the stipple engravings of 1793–7 based on sentimental paintings by Francis Wheatley (1747–1801).
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