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[FORGERY] AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF FORGERIES AND FRAUDS OF VARIOUS KINDS COMMITTED BY CHARLES PRICE, OTHERWISE PATCH. London: Printed for the Editor…, 1786. Smooth calf spine and corners over brown cloth sides, spine ruled and stamped in gilt (joints and spine considerably rubbed). Folding frontispiece showing Price in disguise and in “usual dress.” Two facsimile forgeries bound in as issued. 8vo. Trifling soiling and browning; very good.
As the title page makes clear, this book was published as a warning, based on Price’s incredible facility to forge bank documents and swindle in a masterful way. “Published principally to gratify the curiosity of the people, concerning a man who had baffled every mode of detection set on foot by the Directors of the Bank of England, and the Magistrates of Bow-Street, for upwards of five years.”