ABSTRACT
David Love published dozens of works in a writing career spanning five decades, and the narrative of his life is no less eventful; his autobiography, The Life, Adventures and Experiences of David Love was, like the man and his work, extremely popular. Only a few of the many works produced by Love during these years have survived. Many were cheap pamphlets or single sheets that he sold in his itinerant wanderings, or on the streets of London. Love was remembered fondly for many years after his death at Nottingham in 1827. A succession of correspondents to Notes and Queries in 1889 recalled details of his character and work, nodng that he continued his itinerant trade to the end of his life. Love's presence in both of Hone's popular anthologies of the 1820s testifies to the widespread appeal of his work, especially in the many local communities through which he passed.
