UNCOMMON ADVENTURES [BICKERSTAFF, Isaac (attributed).]
The Life, strange Voyages, and uncommon Adventures, of Ambrose Gwinett, formerly known to the public as the Lame Beggar: who, for a long time swept the way at the Mew’s-Gate, Charing-Cross …
Very rare edition of this enormously popular novella, a kind of ‘Campden Wonder’ narrative involving an illusory murder, survival after hanging, flight to Jamaica, reappearance of the abducted ‘victim’, and reabduction by pirates. The attractive frontispiece depicts Gwinett surrounded by buccaneers and being wheeled towards the gallows in a cart with his coffin.
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