The life and strange surprizing adventures of Majr. Alexander Ramkins, a highland-officer, now in prison at Avignon Being an account of several remarkable adventures during about twenty eight years service in Scotland, Germany, Italy, Flanders and Ireland; exhibiting a very agreeable and instructive lesson of human life, both in a publick and private capacity, in several pleasant instances of his amours, gallantry, oeconomy, &c
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London
Printed for W. Boreham at the Angel in Pater-noster-Row
1719, 1719
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | A reissue of the 1718 edition omitting the preface, and published 3 December 1719 (Moore). - English Short Title Catalog, T69372. - Moore, 408. - Price on title page: (Price 1s.). - Reproduction of original from British Library. - Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Arthur W. Secord, Hutchins, Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions. - Written in the first person. "Whether there was a real-life Ramkins remains an open question."--Furbank and Owens. The entry in the DNB is apparently entirely based on The memoirs |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource ([2],182p) 12° |