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Country Gentleman’s Vade Mecum, (The); or His Companion for the Town. London: Printed for John Harris, 1699. First edition, title within a double-rule border. Modern buckram. [22], 148pp., 4-page catalog. Light marginal dampstains, burn and rust spots with a few small holes. Wing C6533. A guide to protecting oneself from London’s swarthiest inhabitants. One chapter warns against the “bullies, sharpers, and whores” of gaming establishments, whose creatures employ “false dice, and other slights of hand” to take a sucker’s money.