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King, Richard | How to avoid getting swindled by London lowlife

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

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King, Richard

The New Cheats of London Exposed; The Frauds and Tricks of the Town laid open to both Sexes. [London]: Andrew Hambleton, [?1780]


8vo (197 x 127 mm, uncut). Stabbed and stitched, outer leaves dust-soiled, most leaves dog-eared. 


Scarce, not recorded in ESTC, no copies of this edition found in Worldcat. This scare-mongering book is intended to "enable the most innocent Country People to be completely on their Guard how to avoid the base Villainies of those vile and abandoned Wretches [in London], who live by Robbery, and deceiving the Young and Innocent of both Sexes." Mention is made of the tricks and practices of "Bawds, Bullies, Duffers, Fortune Tellers, Footpads, Gamblers, Gossips, Hangers-on, Highwaymen, House-Breakers, J[o]lts, Intelligencers, Jew Defaulters, Insolvents, Kidnappers, Lottery-Office-Keepers, Mock Auctioneers, Money Droppers, Ring Droppers, Pimps, Pretended Friends, Procurers, Procuresses, Pickpockets, Quacks, Receivers of Stolen Goods, Spungers, Sharpers, Swindlers, Smugglers, Shop-lifters, Street-robbers, Trappers, Way-layers, Waggon-Hunters, Whores, &tc. &tc."


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This edition not in ESTC or Toole Stott

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