£ s. d. 250 on Fine Toned Demy 4to Published at 1 1 0 100 on Large Post 4to, printed on one side of the paper only ” 1 5 0 100 on Fine French Linear Writing Paper, printed on one side only, and in imitation of the Catnachian tea-like paper of old ” 1 11 6 6 on Yellow Demy 4to paper ” 2 2 0 ---- 456 [Illustration] EACH COPY OF EACH EDITION NUMBERED. INTRODUCTION. In selecting and arranging this collection of “Street Papers” for publication, every care has been taken to print them _verbatim et literatim_. They all bear the printer’s name and address were such is used, and, in many cases, the wood-cuts have either been borrowed or purchased for the purpose of presenting them in their original style. The real object being to show, in the most genuine state, the character and quality of the productions written expressly for the amusement of the lower orders by street-authors. The general instruction given to our printer has been to “set up word for word from copy, with the exception of sɹǝʇʇǝʃ pǝuɹnʇ (_sic_) and those of a WRO_n_g _F_oNT (?)”--it being thought quite unnecessary to repeat these _convenient_ and at that time _compulsory_ “Errors of the Press” and which were very common in former days with the printers and publishers of street and public-house literature; arising alike from a want of skill in the art, a deficiency of capital, and the hurried manner in which they were prepared and worked off to meet the momentary demand. Old “Jemmy” Catnach--whose name is ever associated with the literature of our streets--was a man who hated “innowations,” as he used to call improvements, and had a great horror of buying type, because, as he used to observe, he kept no standing formes, and when certain sorts run short, he was not particular, and would tell the boys to use anything which would make a good shift. For instance, he never considered a compositor could be aground for a lowercase l while he had a figure of 1 or a cap. I to fall back upon; by the same rule, the cap. O and figure 0 were synonymous with “Jemmy;” the lower-case p, b, d, and q, would all do duty for each other in _turn_, and if they could not always find roman letters to finish a word with, why the compositor knew very well that the “reader” would not mark out ita_lic_.