HOYLAND, JOHN. - A HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE CUSTOMS, HABITS, & PRESENT STATE OF THE GYPSIES; Designed to Develop The Origin of this Singular People, and to Promote the Amelioration of their Condition.
York Printed for the Author ..., 1816. 1st Ed. 265pp. + [ii]. Pp.101-104 with marginal tear with sl. loss without loss to text, ex.-libris J. & A. Burgess, sporadic foxing, rebound in gilt rule edged simulated leather with gilt lettered title label to spine. ¶ John Hoyland (1750-1831) writer on the Gipsies ... in the counties of Northampton, Bedford, and Hertford that he ‘frequently had opportunity of observing the very destitute and abject condition of the Gipsy race’ whom he began to study in summer of 1814 .. [the above work] has still some value, though it is mainly based on Raper’s translation of Grellmann’s ‘Zigeuner.’’ D.N.B.
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