The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly call 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 … with his travels twice through a 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.
London: Thomas Martin, 1788. 12mo, pp. [2], 203; engraved portrait frontispiece of Carew; full contemporary sheep, red morocco label; small, scallop-size chip from the fore-margine of the title page, prelims a little foxed, else a very good, sound copy. An interesting piece of Americana, first published in 1745. "For misdemeanors..... More