The Life Voyages And Adventures Of Bampfylde Moore Carew Commonly Called King Of The Beggars

by Robert Goadby

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

London: printed for J. Barker; Mr. Brown, Eristol sic ; and Mr. Fish, Exeter, n.d., 1785? . 12mo, pp. 4 , 212; recent calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco label on spine; generally fine. Two issues of this edition are known, this is the variant with Bristol spelled incorrectly in the imprint. For misdemeanors in his native England this inveterate rogue was transported to Maryland, escaped and operated confidence games among colonial suckers from Virginia

• Binding: Leather

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.