Person, often in poverty, who wanders from place to place without a home or regular employment or income

Bampfylde Moore Carew, a vagabond. Line engraving.

A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

Bampfylde Moore Carew, a vagabond. Line engraving by J. Baker after R. Phelps.

Bampfylde Moore Carew, a vagabond. Line engraving, 1753.

Bampfylde Moore Carew, a vagabond, with small scene depicting travelling life. Aquatint.

A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

Bampfylde Moore Carew, a vagabond. Stipple engraving by R. Page.

A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

Il libro dei vagabondi : Lo Speculum cerretanorum di Teseo Pini, Il vagabondo di Rafaele Frianoro e altri testi di furfanteria / A cura di Piero Camporesi.

Villainy unmask'd  cont i ning [sic] I. An ample discovery of the many surprizing tricks, ... now practised by rogues ... II. A detection of the mischiefs arising from the vast numbers of pettifoggers, bailiffs, ... by whose oppression multitudes of our able artists, usefu manufacturers, &c. croud the various goals [sic] ... III. Heads of a law little differing from those ... of the city of London, for putting an effectual stop to the enormous crimes and abuses committed by the above wretches. ... IV. A scheme, proposing work-houses and hospitals, ... By a lover of his country.

16 unnumbered pages, 352 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Proteus redivivus, or, The art of wheedling or insinuation : obtain'd by general conversation, and extracted from the several humours, inclinations, and passions of both sexes, respecting their several ages, and suiting each profession or occupation / Collected and methodized by the author of the first part of the English rogue.

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Rogues and vagabonds

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Bampfylde Moore Carew, a vagabond. Line engraving.

Il libro dei vagabondi : Lo Speculum cerretanorum di Teseo Pini, Il vagabondo di Rafaele Frianoro e altri testi di furfanteria / A cura di Piero Camporesi.

Bampfylde Moore Carew, a vagabond. Line engraving, 1753.

Rogues and vagabonds

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Bampfylde Moore Carew, a vagabond. Line engraving.

Il libro dei vagabondi : Lo Speculum cerretanorum di Teseo Pini, Il vagabondo di Rafaele Frianoro e altri testi di furfanteria / A cura di Piero Camporesi.

Bampfylde Moore Carew, a vagabond. Line engraving, 1753.

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