The 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... the great number of characters and shapes he has appeared in ... with his travels twice through great part of America: giving a particular account of the origin, government, laws, and customs of the Gipsies; with the method of electing their king: and a dictionary of the Cant language, used by the mendicants
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Title: The 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... the great number of characters and shapes he has appeared in ... with his travels twice through great part of America: giving a particular account of the origin, government, laws, and customs of the Gipsies; with the method of electing their king: and a dictionary of the Cant language, used by the mendicants
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)
Related people: Carew, Bampfylde Moore, 1693-1770?; Carew, Bampfylde Moore; Price, Thomas; Goadby, Robert; Goadby, Robert
Publisher: Printed for John Taylor
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1789
Language: English
Size and medium: 204 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/290487
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002835659705181
Collection group(s): Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections
Description
The authorship has been ascribed variously to Thomas Price, Robert Goadby, Mrs. Goadby and Carew himself. There are numerous versions with varying titles.
"A dictionary of the Cant language," p. [193]-204.
Indexed in: Sabin 27615.
Additional description
Signature of John P. Newman at foot of t.p. With a loose page taken from a bibliography listing the details of this publication with a handwritten note at the top of the page AR Heath (Bristol) March 2000
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