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Price, Charles, 1723-1786
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A new edition. Being a more minute and particular account of that consummate adept in deception, Charles Price, otherwise Patch, Many Years A Stock-Broker And Lottery-Office-Keeper In London and Westminster: In this Edition the whole of his various Forgeries and Frauds are circumstantially related; together with his Origin, and all the material Occurrences of his Life, equally disgraceful to human Nature, till he began that desperate Undertaking of Forgeries on the Bank of England. In the carrying on of which, he, in the most artful and surprising Manner, baffled every Mode of Detection, set on foot by the Directors and the Magistrates of Bow-Street, for a Series of Six Years. With this Edition is given, as a Frontispiece, an exact Representation of his Person, in the Disguise he wore when he negotiated his first Parcel of Counterseit Bank Notes, in the Year 1780, and likewise another Portrait of him in his usual Dress.
Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The fifth edition, much improved, being a more minute and particular account of that arch impostor Charles Price, Otherwise Patch, otherwise Wilmot, otherwise Powel, otherwise Brant, &c. &c. &c. many years a Stock-Broker and Lottery-Office-Keeper In London and Westminster: in this edition the whole of his various forgeries and fraud are circumstantially related; together with his Origin, and all the materia Occurrences of his Life, including that desperate Undertaking of forgeries on the Bank of England. In the carrying on of which, he, in the most artful and surprising Manner, baffled every Mode of Detection, set on foot by the Directors and the Magistrates of Bow-Street, for a Series of Six Years. With this Edition is given, as a Frontispiece, an exact Representation of his Person, in the Disguise he wore when he negotiated his first Parcel of Counterfeit Bank Notes, in the Year 1780, and likewise another Portrait of him in his usual Dress.
Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The life of that extraordinary character, Mr. Charles Price; wherein are minutely described, the various artifices he made use of in circulating his forgeries on the Bank. By order of the directors of the Bank of England.
Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The Eventful life, and wonderful history of that most notoriuos character, swindler, and forger, Charles Price; Commonly called old patch, &c. &c. cotaining a full account of his unparalleled frauds, impenetrable disguises, and ingenius forgeries, during the term of six years, on the Bank of England, and the public at large.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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Memoirs of a social monster; or, the history of Charles Price, ... commonly called Old Patch. Containing an accurate account of the astonishing frauds and ingenious forgeries of that truly great man, ...
Date: 1790