The history and remarkable life of the truly honourable Col. Jacque, [electronic resource] : commonl...
The history and remarkable life of the truly honourable Col. Jacque, [electronic resource] : commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was born a gentleman, put 'prentice to a pick-pocket, was six and twenty years a thief, and then kidnapp'd to Virginia. Came back a merchant, married four wives, and five [sic] of them prov'd whores; went into the wars, behav'd bravely, got preferment, was made colonel of a regiment, came over, and fled with the Chevalier, and is now abroad compleating a life of wonders, and resolves to dye a general.
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London : printed, and sold by J. Brotherton, at the Royal-Exchange; T. Payne, near Stationers-Hall; W. Mears, at the Lamb, and A. Dodd, at the Peacock without Temple-Bar; W. Chetwood, in Covent-Garden; J. Graves, in St. James's-Street; S. Chapman, in Pall-Mall, and J. Stagg, at Westminster-Hall, MDCCXXIII. [1723, i.e. 1722]
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MDCCXXIII. [1723, i.e. 1722]
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vii,[1],399,[1]p. ; 8°.
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London : printed, and sold by J. Brotherton, at the Royal-Exchange; T. Payne, near Stationers-Hall; W. Mears, at the Lamb, and A. Dodd, at the Peacock without Temple-Bar; W. Chetwood, in Covent-Garden; J. Graves, in St. James's-Street; S. Chapman, in Pall-Mall, and J. Stagg, at Westminster-Hall, MDCCXXIII. [1723, i.e. 1722]
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England
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MDCCXXIII. [1723, i.e. 1722]
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The history and remarkable life of the truly honourable Col. Jacque, [electronic resource] : commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was born a gentleman, put 'prentice to a pick-pocket, was six and twenty years a thief, and then kidnapp'd to Virginia. Came back a merchant, married four wives, and five [sic] of them prov'd whores; went into the wars, behav'...
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Actual date of publication from Moore and Furbank and Owens; advertised in the Post Boy for 18-20 December 1722 as "this day".
Copy filmed at The Eighteenth Century ; reel 15604; no. 03 is the variant.
Corrected variant not in Moore or Furbank and Owens.
Written in the first person, but in fact by Daniel Defoe....
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Furbank and Owens, 217.
Moore, 452.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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74VvrMNX0Q83
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvrMNX0Q83
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991011259849702626
