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KING, Richard. THE NEW CHEATS OF LONDON EXPOSED; OR, THE FRAUDS AND TRICKS OF THE TOWN LAID OPEN TO BOTH SEXES. London: Printed for, and Sold by W. Clements, J. Sadler, and J. Eves, 1792. Plain blue wrappers with old bookseller’s description pasted to upper. Sewn. 8vo. Dog-eared corners, dusty, with some marginal soiling. Scarce.
The title page (which Ricky Jay summed up as “swell” in his own notes) describes the nature of the work thusly: “A new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villainies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions and deceptions, which are daily practiced in London…” by nearly every type of conman and criminal known. The text of this work is almost wholly derived from Cooke’s earlier work, The Cheats of London Exposed.