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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Ramkins, Alexander, 1672-1719?

Uniform Title

Memoirs of Majr. Alexander Ramkins

Title

The life and strange surprizing adventures of Majr. Alexander Ramkins, a highland-officer, now in prison at Avignon. [electronic resource] : 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.

Published

London : Printed for W. Boreham at the Angel in Pater-noster-Row, 1720.

Physical Description

[2],182p. ; 12⁰.

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Notes

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.

Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Arthur W. Secord, Hutchins, Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions.

A reissue of the 1718 edition omitting the preface, and published 3 December 1719 (Moore).

Price on title page: (Price 1s.)

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Format

Books / Online

Language

English

Added to Catalog

September 23, 2010

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