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.
| Author/creator |
Ramkins, Alexander, 1672-1719? |
| Other author/creator | Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 attributed name. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | London : Printed for W. Boreham at the Angel in Pater-noster-Row, 1720. |
| Description | 2 unnumbered pages, 182 pages ; 12⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
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| Uniform title | Memoirs of Majr. Alexander Ramkins |
| General note | 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. |
| General note | Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Arthur W. Secord, Hutchins, Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions. |
| General note | A reissue of the 1718 edition omitting the preface, and published 3 December 1719 (Moore). |
| General note | Price on title page: (Price 1s.) |
| General note | Reproduction of original from British Library. |
| References | Moore, 408 |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, T69372. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
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