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LEADER: 01740cam 22003131 4500
001 17030491
003 DLC
005 20040405145335.0
008 740903s1792 xx 000 0 eng
010 $a 17030491
035 $a(OCoLC)995988
040 $aDLC$cOWoC$dIU$dDLC
050 00 $aPR3404$b.M4 1792
100 1 $aDefoe, Daniel,$d1661?-1731.
240 10 $aMemoirs of a Cavalier
245 10 $aMemoirs of the Honourable Col. Andrew Newport,$ba Shropshire gentleman, who served as a cavalier in the army of Gustavus Adolphus in Germany, and in that of Charles the First in England ... the whole forming a complete military history of Germany and England towards the middle of the seventeenth century.
250 $aA new ed.,$bwith additions, and a portrait of the Earl of Essex.
260 $aLondon,$bPrinted for E. Jeffery and R. Faulder,$c1792.
300 $a439 p.$bports.$c22 cm.
500 $aThe preface to the 1st edition, published under title "Memoirs of a cavalier" (London [1720]) states that the "Memoirs" had been found "in the closet of an eminent publick minister" and were probably written by a "gentleman of quality." The publisher of the 2d edition (Leeds, J. Lister, n.d.) ascribes the authorship to Andrew Newport. It has also been ascribed to Robert Harley. cf. Dict. nat. biog.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yCivil War, 1642-1649$vFiction.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory, Military$y1603-1714$vFiction.
650 0 $aThirty Years' War, 1618-1648$vFiction.
650 0 $aRoyalists$vFiction.
650 0 $aSoldiers$vFiction.
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aWar stories.$2gsafd
700 1 $aNewport, Andrew,$d1623-1699,$esupposed author.
740 0 $aMemoirs of a cavalier.