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Crabb, James : THE GIPSIES ADVOCATE

Seeley, Fleet Street, London, 1831

12mo. Or, Observations On The Origin, Character, Manners, And Habits Of The English Gypsies.....viii, contents [ii], 9-167, [i pp list of authors and errata]. Publishers burgandy cloth with a gilt printed morocco label to the spine. [Full title is:..THE GYPSIES ADVOCATE Or, Observations On The Origin, Character, Manners, And Habits Of The English Gypsies: : to which are added, many interesting anecdotes, on the success that has attended the plans of several benevolent individuals, who anxiously desire their conversion to God.] Sold by Lindsay and Co., and Andrew Street, Edinburgh ; Collins, Glasgow ; Wakeman, Dublin 1831. A printed note on front endpaper stating that profits on the sale of this work will be used for the funds of the 'Southampton Committee for the Amelioration of the Condition of the gipsies' , and to aid in the support of the 'Lansdown and Kingland Infants' Schools' of Southampton. The rear leaf has a List of Authors who hasve written on the Gispies. Errata at foot with two corrections. Printed by Baker and Son, Southampton. A second edition [Linsay and Co.] with 167pp was pub. in the same year and a third edition with additions,199pp was pub. in 1833 [Nisbet]. Neat inscriptions dated 1859 erso f.f.e.p. [l. soiled]. [Copac 1 copy BL.]. James Crabb (1774-1851), a Wesleyan Methodist Preacher, was a school master and preacher in the Southampton area of Hampshire.. Book Condition: V.g.. Binding: Hardback

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