bSeventy-four striking portraits of men and women on the margins of London society in the seventeenth century--including street vendors and petty criminals.b piBuy my Dish of great Eeles, Any Old Iron take money for, Twelve Pence a Peck Oysters, Buy my fat Chickens, Fair Lemons Oranges.i p At the end of the seventeenth century, the artist Marcellus Laroon became well known for a series of drawings that illustrated London's marginal men and women street vendors, hustlers, and petty criminals. This set of drawings came to be known as iThe Cries of Londoni after the shouts and cries vendors used to hawk their wares. piHawkers, Beggars and Quacksi presents seventy-four of Laroon's striking portraits. Following an illustrated introduction that contextualizes iThe Cries of Londoni, each portrait is beautifully reproduced with a commentary on the individual street-seller and their trade. These commentaries provide a wealth of detail about each seller's dress, the equipment they used to ply t