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[004155] [Paine and the French Revolution] The French Rogue, or Extraordinary and Surprising Adventures of That Notorious Thief, Spy, and Murderer, J. Baptiste Couteau … With Anecdotes of the Notorious Tom Paine Esq. And His Associates the Revolutionary Societies. London: J. Bailey, 1808. First Edition. 12mo. Unbound. Pamphlet. Fair. [3], 4-36pp, date from the BL. Disbound

Browned, damp stained and foxed throughout, print slightly indistinct to central portion of page 11, but without loss of sense

With coloured frontispiece of Marat and Couteau ‘assassinating and robbing a gentleman’.

The printer was J.[ohn] Bailey, at his 116 Chancery Lane address, see the BBTI

The full title is The French Rogue, or Extraordinary and Surprising Adventures of That Notorious Thief, Spy, and Murderer, J. Baptiste Couteau, Alias M. Ragout, alias Dick Hell-Finch: Containing All the Scenes of Horror he was Engaged in During the Whole of the French Revolution; His Travels, Disguises, Dangers, and Narrow Escapes, in England, Ireland, Turkey, and America; With Anecdotes of the Notorious Tom Paine Esq. And His Associates the Revolutionary Societies

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