Hawkers, Beggars and Quacks - Portraits from The Cries of London

Marcellus Laroon’s 'The Cryes of the City of London' presents, in seventy-four striking portraits, a panorama of London’s marginal poor as they existed at the end of the seventeenth century. This book provides a fascinating insight into the men and women who made their livelihood, legally and illegally, on the streets of England’s capital.