The new cheats of London exposed; or, The frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes : 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.
| Author/creator | King, Richard |
| Other author | Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Printed for the proprietors; and sold by C. Cooke, Paternoster-Row, [1790?] |
| Description | 96 pages, plates ; 12⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Frauds of London detected |
| General note | Not in fact by Thomas Brown, but by Richard King. |
| General note | First published as 'Frauds of London detected'. |
| General note | Price in square brackets: (Price One Shilling) |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Trinity College Library Watkinson Collection. |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, N41824. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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