The new cheats of London exposed; or the frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes. [electronic resource] : Being a guard against the iniquitous practices of the metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villainies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions and deceptions, which are daily practised in London, by bawds and bullies duffers fortune tellers gamblers gossips hangers-on jilts intelligencers Jew defaulters insolvents kidnappers lottery office keepers mock auctioneers money droppers ring droppers pimps pretended friends procurers procuresses quacks receivers of stolen goods setters spungers sharpers swindlers smugglers shop lifters street robbers trappers way-layers waggon hunters whores, &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admonitions, salutary hints and observations, whereby rogues cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided, by the instructions contained. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a manner, as to enable the most innocent country people to be completely on their guard, how to avoid the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches, who live by villany and fraud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Richard, Esq.

Standardized Title:

Frauds of London detected. Abridgments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminals--Great Britain.

Criminals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (48p. )

Other Title:

New cheats of London exposed; or the frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes

Place of Publication:

[Manchester? : Printed for J. Sadler, J. Eves, and M. Clements, 1799?]

Notes:

Abridged and altered from Richard King's 'The frauds of London detected'.

Turned chain lines.

Price on title page: Price Only Sixpence.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T224596.

OCLC:

510699129