Life and Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, Commonly Called, The King of The Beggars. Being an impartial account of his Life, from his leaving Tiverton School, at the age of fifteen, and entering into a Society of Gipsies; wherein the mlotives of his conduct are related and explained: The great number of Characters and Shapes he has appeared in through Great-Britain, Ireland and several other Places of Europe: with his travels twice through great part [sic] of America: Giving a Particular Account of the Origin, Government, Laws and Customs, of the Gipsies, wyth the Method of electing their King. And A Dictionary of the Cant Language used by the Mendicants.

  • [Carew, Bampfylde Moore]
  • Gainsborough: Printed by and for Henry Mozley 1811

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12mo, pp. 165, [15] + frontispiece. Original blue sugarpaper wrappers backed in brown paper. Lightly toned, some spotting, frontispiece foxed and partly sprung. Somewhat soiled, spine covering chipped, corners creased.

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A scarce, provincially-printed reprint of the picaresque and improbable memoirs of rogue and vagrant, Bampfylde Moore Carew (1690-1758), which was first published in 1745. Various namers have been put forward for its author with varying degrees of certainty, with none credited, although many anonymous editors adapted it to pamphlet and chapbook form over the second half of the 18th century. This particular edition, which here survives in in its original wrappers, is recorded by Library Hub at the BL only, with Worldcat adding 6 further institutions.

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