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Transcriber's Note:
THE - TRICKS - OF THE - TOWN:
OR, - WAYS and MEANS - for getting MONEY.
Wherein - The various Lures, Wiles, and Artifices, practised by the Designing and Crafty upon the Weak and Unwary, are fully exposed.
Recommended to the serious Perusal of all Adventurers and Sharers in Bubble-Undertakings, the Pursuers of Pennyworths, and Bargain-Buyers.
Chiefly collected from some Papers of the Ingenious Mr. John Thomson, scattered between Laurence-Pountney's-Hill and Dover.
LONDON: - Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane: And sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. 1732. (Price One Shilling.)
Language
en
Duration
~1 hours (97K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Sankar Viswanathan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2009-08-03
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Known today for the satirical work The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money, this little-documented 18th-century writer survives in the record mostly through that lively book and the brief catalog note that marks him as active in 1732.
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