The life, voyages and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew; commonly called, king of the beggars. ... Collected and amended ... by Thomas Price, of Poole ... To which is added a dictionary of the cant language, used by the mendicants

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 to Connecticut, - the memorable first of a long line of such artists who have continued to flourish in this climate" (see Howes C132). See Sabin 27615, quoting Stephens: "Banished to Maryland, he (truncated) gives an amusing account of the country, and his adventures in Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut, till he embarked at New London for England. His accounts of how he bamboozled and bled Whitfield, Thos. Penn, Gov. Thomas and many others of good repute, are amazing, true or not." "Goadby's life is based on the anonymous Life and Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, Exon, 1745. There were several versions circulating in the eighteenth century, but only those with glossaries are described [in Alston]. Both the text of the 1745 and 1749 were reprinted by C. H. Wilkinson as The King of the Beggars (Oxford, 1931). Versions of Goadby's text by Thomas Price are included in the main sequence of editions" (Alston). Alston IX, 297; this edition not in Black, A Gypsy Bibliography. ESTC locates 15 copies worldwide. (Inventory #: 64413)