@article{669512,
      recid = {669512},
      author = {King, Richard},
      title = {The new cheats of London exposed; or, The frauds and  tricks of the town laid open to both sexes. Being a  warning-piece 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, deceptions, which are  daily practised in London,-by bawds, beggars, bullies,  children strippers, duffers, fortune tellers, footpads,  gossips, gamblers, hangers-on, highwaymen, house-breakers,  jilts, intelligencers, Jew defaulters, informers,  kidnappers, mock auctioneers, money droppers, pimps,  pretended friends, pettyfoggers, procurers, procuresses,  pickpockets, quacks, ring droppers, receivers of stolen  goods, spungers, sharpers, swindlers, smugglers,  shop-lifters, street robbers, trappers, way-layers,  waggon-hunters, whores, &c. &c. &c.  Interspersed with useful reflections and admontions,  salutary hints and observations, whereby rogues and cheats  are not only exposed, but may be avoided; the whole laid  down in a plain, and easy manner, to enable innocent  country people to be completely on their guard, and avoid  the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches,  who live by robbery and deceiving the young and credulous  of both sexes. Written from experience and observation, by  Richard King, Esq. Embellished with an emblematical  frontispiece. Peruse these, sheets, and you will find true  pictures of the vicious kind; of cheats who stroll from  street to street, and make a prey of all they meet.  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Printed for, and sold wholesale and retail by, Alex. Hogg,  No. 16, Paternoster Row,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {64 p., [1] leaf of plates :},
      year = {1778},
      note = {Engraved frontispiece},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/669512},
}