Canning's amusing paper in the _Eton Microcosm_ (June 11, 1787), did more than mark the vogue of those tiny "16 mo's" at Mr. Newbery's and "the Bouncing B, Shoe Lane": it was also a tempting advertisement; and in the early nineteenth century small Londoners who could not rise to the splendours of "twopence Gilt" might buy their own New Year and Easter Gifts at Catnach's or the "Toy and Marble Warehouse" in Seven Dials, for a half-penny, or even (with covers of rough blue sugar-paper) for a farthing.
