VAGABONDS ALL

by Parry, Judge Sir Edward Abbott

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NY:: Scribner,, 1926. Hardcover; partial seminary library rubberstamp inside front cover; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends + cover tips lightly worn; otherwise good.. + index. With 8 portrait photos, including frontispiece caricature by `Ape' (Carlo Pelligrini) taken from `Vanity Fair.' Honored luminary of the English Court recounts activities of `vagabonds & rogues' whose life travels were eased by duping the gullible. ||| Factual tales--Arthur Orton, impostor claimant to Tichborne estates; Mary Anne Clarke, mistress to son of George III; Daniel Dunglass Home, spirit medium esteemed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; John Hatfield, forger / bigamist; Robin Hood, the legendary outlaw; Madame Rachel, cosmetician / blackmailer; Bampflyde-Moore Carew, king of Gypsies; + others. ||| Droll, witty, fascinating true tales. As Sir Edward commented: `We keep the Lives of the Saints on our shelves--but burn the midnight oil studying biographies of sinners.'