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How ‘Tis Done. A Thorough Ventilation of the Numerous Schemes Conducted by Wandering Canvassers, Together with Various Advertising Dodges for the Swindling of the Public. Chicago: Fidelity, 1879. First edition. Publisher’s brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Yellow endpapers. Twelve illustrations. 8vo. 321pp. Slight fraying to covers, occasional soiling and spotting internally, else very good. The work is devoted to exposing the swindles of traveling agents and salesmen whose schemes involved bogus patent rights, lighting rod protection against losses in case of fire, and “investments” in tree nurseries and agricultural concerns that never materialized. Their victims, the intended audience of this volume, were mostly farmers and small townspeople.