'King of the Beggars'.- Life and Adventures (The) of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, the Noted Devonshire Stroller and Dog-Stealer...As related by Himself, during his Passage to the Plantations of America..., lacking portrait, title little dust-soiled with faint water-stain to head and shallow chip to lower outer corner, first and last few leaves reinforced at inner margin, the odd spot, some very light browning, modern half calf, few faint and very small stains to upper cover, rubbing to joints and corners, Exeter, Printed by the Farleys, for Joseph Drew, 1745 § Life and Adventures (The) of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew...and a Dictionary of the Cant Language..., engraved portrait frontispiece and 2 plates, contemporary ink name Mary Lynn and a few scribbles to final f. verso, B5&6 short tears within text but no loss, the occasional stain including water-stain to foot of plates, soiling and some spotting, lightly browned, later half calf, faint staining along joints, rubbed, for A. Millar &c, 1782; and others on Carew, including the rare ?first American edition of his life (Philadelphia, 1813), 8vo & 12mo (11)
⁂ The first mentioned a reissue of the first edition, also published in Exeter in 1745, with the text reset. The work is variously attributed to Bampfylde Moore Carew, Thomas Price, Robert Goadby and his wife Mrs. Goadby, with numerous versions appearing under various titles.
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