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The lives and singular adventures of three Jacks of Rosemary Lane : more particularly the life of Colonel Jack, in whose memoirs is poortrayed a long chain of successful occurrences, which happened during his gradation through the following stages : beggar boy, pickpocket, footpad, housebreaker, foot soldier, deserter, slave, negro driver, owner of an extensive plantation, West-India merchant, and likewise husband to four wives : the whole forming a display of the tricks and manœuvres practised by highwaymen and their colleagues, servants with fictitious characters, and the actions of many other notorious rogues and villains described : written with a view to put on their guard the inhabitants of this extensive metropolis against those infamous pests of society.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR3404 .C6 1801
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Colonel Jack
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--18th century.
- English fiction.
- Book prices.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Picaresque fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 72 pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed and sold by S. Fisher, no. 10, St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell : Also sold by T. Hurst, no. 32, Paternoster-row, [1801]
- Summary:
- Abridged version of Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack.
- Notes:
- Colophon on page 72 reads: Printed by S. Fisher, St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell. 1802.
- "Price One Shilling."--Title leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2025 from Jarndyce Antiquarian Books.
- OCLC:
- 54201320
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