Dissertation on the Gipseys / Representing their manner of life, family economy, occupations & trades, marriages & education, sickness, death, & burial, religion, language, sciences & arts, &c. &c. &c.; with an historical enquiry concerning their origin & first appearance in Europe

Transcribed from the William Ballintine 1807 edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org, using scans from the British Library.
REPRESENTING THEIR
WITH
AN HISTORICAL ENQUIRY
CONCERNING THEIR
ORIGIN & FIRST APPEARANCE IN EUROPE .
FROM THE GERMAN OF H. M. G. GRELLMANN.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM BALLINTINE, Duke-street , Adelphi , Strand :
SOLD BY EFFINGHAM WILSON, OPPOSITE THE CHAPTER COFFEE-HOUSE, ST. PAUL’S.
1807.
The following Dissertation has already appeared in an English dress, having been, some years since, translated by the late M. Raper, Esq. F.R.S. and A.S. for the purpose, as he states in his preface, of affording “such of his countrymen as were unacquainted with the German language an opportunity of learning from what part of the world it is probable the Gipseys came among us.” The original work, and Mr. Raper’s translation, are burthened with many notes—Greek, Latin, French, German, English—shewing the sources whence the information was derived, most of which, for obvious reasons, are omitted in the present edition; such only being retained as were thought indispensable, or particularly interesting.