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The surprising adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, king of the beggars : containing his life, a dictionary of the cant language and many entertaining particulars of that extraordinary man

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Title: The surprising adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, king of the beggars : containing his life, a dictionary of the cant language and many entertaining particulars of that extraordinary man

Level: Item

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 A.K. Newman

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1813]

Language: English

Size and medium: 286 p., [4] leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/290490

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002835789705181

Collection group(s): Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections

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Engraved t.p., undated; plates undated.


One of the numerous versions with varying titles, the authorship of which has been ascribed variously to Thomas Price, Robert Goadby, Mrs. Goadby and Carew himself. Cf. DNB III, 956.


Date of preface: Sept. 28th, 1813.


"A dictionary of the cant language": p. [273]-286.


Indexed in: BM XXXIII, 965.

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