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  • The milk marketing fraud / The Vegan Society.
  • The milk marketing fraud / The Vegan Society.
  • People involved in the trial for fraud against Edwin Marshall Fox. Drawing by G.K. Jones, 1905.
  • A harbour in which bales of goods are being traded between two merchants: falsehood and fraud govern the transaction, aided by an untrained clerk; representing the fraudulent use of commercial law. Engraving by H. Goltzius.
  • The conclave of physicians, detecting their intrigues, frauds, and plots, against their patients. Also a peculiar discourse of the Jesuits bark: the history thereof, with its true use, and abuse. Moreover, a narrative of an eminent case in physick / By Gideon Harvey.
  • A woman being exhibited, supposedly with no lower half of her body. Wood engraving.
  • A performance by the "three-headed nightingale" (supposedly a woman with three heads). Reproduction of a wood engraving by E.A. Tilly.
  • A performance by the "three-headed nightingale" (supposedly a woman with three heads), seen from the side, revealing the trick whereby the appearance of three-headedness was achieved. Reproduction of wood engraving by E.A. Tilly.
  • Mary Tofts, a woman who pretended that she had given birth to rabbits. Stipple engraving by Maddocks.
  • Toby, a beggar who pretended to be blind and lame. Engraving by R. Cooper, 1822.