The King of the beggars
Subtitle: Bampfylde-Moore Carew
By: edited by C. H. Wilkinson.
Contributors: Price, Thomas, supposed author.; Goadby, Robert, 1721-1778, supposed author.; Goadby, Robert, Mrs., supposed author.; Wilkinson, Cyril Hackett, 1888-1960, ed.
Publisher: The Clarendon press
Published: 1931
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Carew, Bampfylde Moore, 1693-1770?; Romanies.; United States -- Description and travel.; Great Britain -- Description and travel.
Notes: "Bibliographical note": p. 307.
"Conclusive evidence of his popularity is furnished by the great number of editions [with varying titles] in which Carew's adventures are described at varying length. But his story as told in The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, 1745, and An apology for the life of Bampfylde-Moore Carew <1749>, the two volumes in which it originally appeared, has never yet been reprinted." The present work is a reprint of these two volumes and contains reproductions of their title-pages.
The authorship has been ascribed variously to Thomas Price, Robert Goadby, Mrs. Goadby and Carew himself.