1812 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 the Extraordinary Man.

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding

Bound by J. Fellowes in half calf with marbled paper-covered boards. 

A new edition, corrected and much improved. 

A biography on Bampfylde Moore Carew, who supposedly wrote this himself during a passage to America, though it's more likely that Carew supplied the facts to Robert Goadby, who then wrote it.

Carew here provides a fantastic tale of his varied and adventurous life, and though he certainly travelled widely and was involved in minor crimes, many stories in this volume have been deemed too fantastical and literary to be true. 

First published in 1745, this biography was an instant bestseller and was reprinted many times over the next hundred years.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, an engraved title page and two plates by Middlemist after W. M. Craig. Collated, complete. 

Title page and frontispiece have been cleaned by the binder.