01341cam a2200301 a 4500 207938 20141120175504.0 850409s1767 enk 00001 eng d (OCoLC)ocm16108501 (OCoLC)16108501 (CStRLIN)PAUG85-B13143 (CaOTULAS)121254838 ABD3793 207938 PU PU PR3291.A1 A28 1767 04/15/85 CT The Adventures of a kidnapped orphan. The adventures of a kidnapped orphan. Letter-press Full Work London Printed for M. Thrush, at the King's-Arms, in Salisbury Court, Fleet-Street. MDCCXLVII. [i.e. 1767?]. 1747. [8], vii, [2], 10-252, [4] p. ; 18 cm. (12mo) Duodecimo Publication date of 1767 is based on the fact that works advertised on p. [3]-[4] (last count) were published in 1766. Also, the preface states that "each circumstance was verbally communicated [to the editor] during a stay of four months at Calcutta, in the year 1758" p. vi-vii. Advertisements on p. [1-4] (last count) Library-related marginalia; pencil; words and numbers; back paste-down endpaper and verso back free endpaper. Bookplate--"Library of the University of Pennsylvania" located front paste-down endpaper. "University of Pennsylvania Library" marked in raised letters, recto title page and recto last leaf of advertisements. A remnant of blue paper, shaped like the upper left-hand corner of a leaf of paper, pasted on recto first leaf table of contents. Seems that the rest of the paper has been peeled away. Dialogue indicated with single quotation marks. Tape stuck to spine edge of page 242. Introduction makes explicit the affective aim of the work: "If upon the whole it should sensibly touch the generous mind; if it should draw the tear of pity from the eye of inhumanity, or cause the relentless breast to melt with compassion[...], the Editor will esteem it ample compensation for the pains he has taken[...]" Introduction ranks kidnappers as the worst of criminals: "[...]No character can be more odious, or indeed injurious to society, than that of a kidnapper or crimp; the highwayman demands your money at the hazard of his life; the gambler picks your pocket, but leaves it at your option to be a second time trepanned; the slanderer traduces your character, but cannot deprive you of the means of vindicating it; but the kidnapper robs the ignorant, unsuspecting person of the very rank in creation, he was entitled to fill, and infamously sells the liberty which was his birthright, his boast his glory, as a subject to the crown of England." Introduction claims that the narrative is a true story: "It will be necessary to premise, that the editor, being an officer in the naval service, and on a a voyage to divers settlement belonging to the English in the East-Indies; happened one morning[...]to observe one amongst them, in whose face he discovered some traces of the features of an old school-fellow[...]As the adventures of the unfortunate Mr. Thomas Page, who was decoyed by one of the infamous crimps[...]and sold to slavery, in climes far remote from his native country[...]which proved the cause of his death, will compose the subject of this volume; the editor begs leave to inform the reader, that each circumstance was verbally communicated to him...." ESTC (RLIN) T68055 Raven, J. British fiction, 1750-1770, 1059 Table of contents Contents. Front "Chap. I. Birth and education of Mr. Page, with the circumstances that befel him, previous to his being decoyed[...]" Introduction Introduction. Front "The many flagrant violations that have been attempted on the liberties of free-born English subjects, by mercenary hirelings and abandoned miscreants, who with hearts steeled against every impression of humanity, make a trade of selling their fellow-creatures to slavery, and thereby subjecting them and their relatives to the most agonizing woe; having recalled to my memory the case of a friend, who unhappily fell a victim to their accursed frauds; I determined to lay it before the public, in order to enhance their detestation of such despicable means of living, and guard unwary youth from falling into their crafty snares." Our orphan's fate, a hapless fate,---Let ev'ry youth deplore;---Condemn'd, by base insidious arts,---To quit his native shore.---Expos'd on foreign sands he lies,---And yields his latest breath,---Unwept by those unpitying eyes---That doom'd him first to death. Epigraph verses appear to original to the work. Third-person Narrative includes one letter, p.163. There is one instance of first-person, p. 74, which begins in the voice of a character Manly and slips into a first-person version of the author's voice. Final chapter includes the narrator referencing the Introduction of the work and the manner in which the editor of the work met the subject of the narrative. Rich. Brydgos [symbol at?] Winterford 1768 Ink Recto title page Pencil Numbers Words Located recto first leaf table of contents, recto title page, and verso of third last leaf of book. Pencil Editorial markings Located on page 13 Transcription: "be" Corrected from "would useful to him in the direction and management" to "would be useful to him in the direction and management" Author (text) Generic/Descriptive ...the editor begs leave to inform the reader, that each circumstance was verbally communicated to him... and that as such, he presents them arranged in the order, in which they occurred; having given some account of the birth, education, and disposition of his unfortunate friend, as a necessary prelude to the sequel of his affecting story. Introduction Male Author unknown. Author (paratext) Generic/Descriptive ...the editor begs leave to inform the reader, that each circumstance was verbally communicated to him... and that as such, he presents them arranged in the order, in which they occurred; having given some account of the birth, education, and disposition of his unfortunate friend, as a necessary prelude to the sequel of his affecting story. Introduction Male Author unknown. CHR 1767 PRO Brydges, Richard, fl. 1768 Mixed Back Same publisher First advertisement is for The cheats of London exposed; or, the tricks of the town laid open to both sexes[...]. Rich. Brygos Inscribed by Unauthorized M. Thrush Printed for Unauthorized Early Novels University of Pennsylvania Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania) PU RBC 04/15/85 C ?266:sl\Ex libris\ RBC 1 297387 Ex libris: Brydges, Rich., fl. 1768 04/15/85 C Adventure Kidnapped Orphan KGP 6/26/15 Haverford College KS