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[Semple, James George] Memoirs of the Northern Impostor; or Prince of Swindlers. London: G. Kearsley, 1786. Seventh edition. Marbled wrappers. Etched frontispiece by Barlow. 8vo. p. [i-iv] v-xv, 15—147. With half-title. The book describes the various schemes Semple, a notorious confidence man, devised to deceive tradesmen and officials, and exhaustively lists his victims and the goods or sums of which they were defrauded.