Itinerant cake-seller with baskets of cakes, 18th century. Nice New, a well-known character at Reading. Famous for his melancholy cry of Nice new! Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield’s Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

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