Street cries on the frozen Thames: Food hawkers at London frost fairs, 1608-1814
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Creator (person)
Day, Ivan
Date published
December 9, 2018
Abstract
A number of celebrated visitors to the fairs purchased souvenirs of this kind. A small ticket ‘printed by G. Groom, on the ice, on the River Thames, January 31, 1684' was personally printed for Charles II and five other members of the royal family to commemorate their frost fair visit.4 John Evelyn, who once owned this item, commented on the practice of printing these keepsakes on the ice: The people and ladyes tooke a fancy to have their names printed, and the day and yeare set downe when printed on the Thames: this humour tooke so universally, that ‘twas estimated the printer gain’d £5 a day, for printing a line onely, at six-pence a name, besides what he got by ballads, etc.
Contributor (person)
Calaresu, Melissa
van den Heuvel, Danielle
Book title
Food Hawkers: Selling in the Streets from Antiquity to the Present
Pagination
62-83
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
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In Copyright