Author: METCALF, John
Title: The Life of John Metcalf, Blind Jack of Knaresborough, With many entertaining anecdotes of his exploits in hunting, card-playing, &c. Some particulars relating to the expedition against the rebels in 1746, in which he bore a personal share... his various contracts for making roads, erecting bridges...
Description: Leeds: E. Baines, 1804. 3rd. Edition. Small 8vo. pp. ix, 10-140> portrait frontispiece. Modern cloth. A near contemporary note below the frontispiece reads "was in good health on March 10th at Spofforth 1807." Childhood blindness did not stop John Metcalf [1717 - 1810] from living a full, varied and interesting life.

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