The King of the beggars : Bampfylde-Moore Carew
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Type of record: Book
Title: The King of the beggars : Bampfylde-Moore Carew
Other titles: The life and adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew; An apology for the life of Bampfylde Moore Carew
Classmark: BC Rom Fraser CAR
Additional creator(s): Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?) (Other); Price, Thomas of Poole (Other); Goadby, Robert (1721-1778) (Other); Goadby, Mrs Robert (Other); Wilkinson, Cyril Hackett (1888-1960) (Other)
Related people: Carew, Bampfylde Moore, 1693-1770?
Publisher: The Clarendon press
Publication city: Oxford
Date(s): 1931
Language: English
Size and medium: xxiv, 307 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/290408
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002829289705181
Collection group(s): Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections
Description
"Conclusive evidence of his popularity is furnished by the great number of editions [with varying titles] in which Carew's adventures are described at varying length. But his story as told in The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, 1745, and An apology for the life of Bampfylde-Moore Carew [1749], the two volumes in which it originally appeared, has never yet been reprinted." The present work is a reprint of these two volumes and contains reproductions of their title-pages.
The authorship has been ascribed variously to Thomas Price, Robert Goadby, Mrs. Goadby and Carew himself.
"Bibliographical note": page 307.
Additional description
With a loose newspaper cutting of a review of the book taken from the TLS, October 8th, 1931 written by Edmund Blunden
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