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Brotherton Collection4
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections4

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cant1
romanies1
whales1
zoology1

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Blair, Robert (1699-1746)1
Boreman, Thomas1
Carew, Bampfylde Moore1
Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?)1
Carew, Bampfylde Moore, 1693-1770?1
Goadby, Mrs Robert1
Goadby, Robert1
Goadby, Robert (1721-1778)1
Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774)1
Gray, Thomas1

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The Grave, a poem

Blair, Robert (1699-1746); Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

[1790?]

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A description of above three hundred animals : viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the manner of catching whales in Greenland

Boreman, Thomas

1803

Authorship attribution in Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.) II, p. 43. First published in 1730.

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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... with his travels twice through great part of America : giving a particular account of the origin, government, laws, and customs of the gipsies ... and a dictionary of the cant language used by the medicants

Carew, Bampfylde Moore (1693-1770?); Price, Thomas of Poole; Goadby, Robert (1721-1778); Goadby, Mrs Robert

1793

There are numerous versions with varying titles, the authorship of which has been ascribed variously to Thomas Price, Robert Goadby, Mrs. Goadby and Carew himself.

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The deserted village

Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774)

[ca. 1800?]

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