风俗画这种东西,大师不屑为,画匠不能为,因此一向稀罕。北京风俗画屈指可数:淳菁阁印行、姚茫父词陈师曾画的《北京风俗图》早已绝版;端木蕻良诗王羽仪画的《燕京风俗》出在日本,无缘得见。市面上能找到的,除了书目文献出版社八三年版的《北京民间风俗百图》、金受申《老北京的生活》因有李滨声一百三十多幅插图勉强可算之外,就是这本《京都叫卖图》了。 更稀罕的是这本书出自老外之手。《京都叫卖图》原名((Calls,Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlars》(《北平街头小贩的叫卖声与货色》),作者Samuel Victor Constant,国籍不明,原书出版年份亦不详。根据书中 Genre painting this kind of thing, the master disdain, painter can not, so has always been rare. There are only a handful of genre paintings in Beijing: the book “Beijing Customs” by Chun Ching Court printed by Chen Ching Court and Yao Ming’s father Chen Shi has long been out of print; the “Yanjing Custom” written by Wang Duan, a poet of Duanmu Luliu, is out of Japan. The market can be found, in addition to bibliographic press eighty-three edition of the “Beijing folk customs hundred plans”, Jin Shen “old Beijing life” because of Li Bin Sheng more than one hundred and thirty pieces of illustrations barely can be counted, it is this “Kyoto selling map” the. Even more rare is the book from foreigners. “Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlars,” by Samuel Victor Constant, unknown nationality, year of publication of the original book is unknown, according to the book