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A fortnight's ramble through London, or, A complete display of all the cheats and frauds practized in that great metropolis, with the best methods for eluding them : being a pleasing narrative of the adventures of a farmer's son published at his request for the benefit of his country.

Title
A fortnight's ramble through London, or, A complete display of all the cheats and frauds practized in that great metropolis, with the best methods for eluding them : being a pleasing narrative of the adventures of a farmer's son published at his request for the benefit of his country.
Publication
London : Printed by and for J. Roach, Russell Court, Drury Lane, 1792.

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Additional Authors
  • Barlow, Inigo.
  • Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811.
Description
[2], 90, [6] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill.; 18 cm.
Subject
Swindlers and swindling > Great Britain > Fiction > Early works to 1800
Note
  • "Price one shilling"
  • Signatures: A-H⁶.
  • The titlepage is engraved.
  • Illustrations: Engraved frontispiece, "Experience teaches at too dear a price; / Read this, and cheaply learn to shun each vice," by Barlow after Cruikshanks. -- Engraved title-vignette, depicting a young lady being ushered into a bedroom by an older lady. A man welcomes the newcomers with open arms; on the bed, an older gentleman is being entertained by two topless young ladies.
Indexed In (note)
  • ESTC
Call Number
Pforz (Fortnight's ramble through London)
OCLC
NYPG04-B4110
Title
A fortnight's ramble through London, or, A complete display of all the cheats and frauds practized in that great metropolis, with the best methods for eluding them : being a pleasing narrative of the adventures of a farmer's son published at his request for the benefit of his country.
Imprint
London : Printed by and for J. Roach, Russell Court, Drury Lane, 1792.
Indexed In:
ESTC N6887
Local Note
Pforzheimer copy 1: Lacking the three final advertisement leaves [p. 91-96]. -- Bound first of four late eighteenth-century works from London, including: The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew (Cavill, 1791); Shakespeare's jests, or The jubilee jester (Sharpe, [1790?]); and The memoirs of George Barrington (Smith, 1790). -- Bound in contemporary calf, with red morocco spine label; spine gilt.
Pforzheimer copy 1: Lacking the three final advertisement leaves [p. 91-96]. -- With the armorial bookplate of Albert M. Cohn. -- With a contemporary manuscript translation into French ("Mot à Mot") of the title-page, in ink, in an unknown hand, tipped in preceding the frontispiece. -- Bound in nineteenth century half-calf with marbled boards and red morocco spine label; spine gilt.
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Added Author
Barlow, Inigo. Engraver
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811. Illustrator
Cohn, Albert M. (Albert Mayer). Former owner
Research Call Number
Pforz (Fortnight's ramble through London)
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