Itinerant seller of brushes and table-books. In cap, doublet, trousers, buckle shoes. Brushes were used to polish wood floors. A table-book was a folding slate pocket book with a pencil. Buy a Brush or a Table Book. From a print by Henry Overton, in the reign of King James I or Charles I, early 17th century. Copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his own The Cries of London, or Vagabondiana 2, edited by Francis Douce, John Bowyer Nichols, London, 1839.

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