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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 that metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villanies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions, and deceptions, which are daily practised in London, by bawds, 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-listers, street-robbers, trappers, way-layers, waggon-hunters, whores, &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admonitions, salutary hints and observations, whereby rogues and cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided, by the instructions herein 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. Written from experience and observation by Thomas Brown, author of the New London spy, also published by C. Cooke. Embellished with emblematical copper-plates.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Richard, Esq.
- Standardized Title:
- Frauds of London detected
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminals--Great Britain.
- Criminals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (96p.,plates )
- Other Title:
- New cheats of London exposed; or, The frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for the proprietors; and sold by C. Cooke, Paternoster-Row, [1790?]
- Notes:
- Not in fact by Thomas Brown, but by Richard King.
- First published as 'Frauds of London detected'.
- Price in square brackets: (Price One Shilling)
- Reproduction of original from Trinity College Library Watkinson Collection.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, N41824.
- OCLC:
- 508191292
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