Published by authority. The frauds of London detected; or, a warning-piece against the iniquitous practices of that metropolis. Containing a just, true, and accurate Account of the many atrocious Artifices, Fricks, Seductions, Stratagems, Impositions and Deceptions, which are daily committed in and about London and Westminster (in order to deceive the innocent unwary Countryman, and unsuspecting Stranger) by Bawds Bullies Duffers Fortune Tellers Footpads Gamblers Gossips Hangers-on Highwaymen House-Breakers Jilts Intelligencers Jew Defaulters Insolvents Kidnappers Lottery-Office-Keepers Mock Auctioneers Money Droppers Pimps Pretended Friends Procurers Procuresses Pickpockets Quacks Receivers of Stolen Goods Spungers Sharpers Swindlers Smugglers Shoplifters Street-Robbers Trappers Way-Layers Waggon hunters Whores, &c. &c. &c. Interspersed with Seasonable Reflections, whereby the foregoing Rogues and Cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided, if the Reader attends to the Instructions herein laid down for that Purpose. Including Observations, salutary Hints, and Admonitions to Both Sexes, in Town and Country, calculated for the Benefit of Mankind in general, to descry Vice and exalt Virtue. By Richard King, Esq. Embellished with curious emblematical copper-plates, entirely new.

Date:

[1779?]