Attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence

Two episodes about Mr. Muff and Mr. Randle at the races and being swindled out of some money. Letterpress and wood engraving.

A Chinese man is hanging up from a rope attached to a wooden structure and resting on a bamboo stick held by two Chinese men. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

A man is horrified at the high cost of a meal in a tavern while the two women whom he has entertained enjoy his discomfort. Engraving by S. Sangster, 1851, after A.L. Egg.

Two episodes about Mr. Muff losing money gambling at the races. Letterpress and wood engraving.

1 print : etching ; platemark 19.9 x 14 cm

Christopher Atkinson, a fraudster. Etching, 1786(?).

16 unnumbered pages, 352 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Proteus redivivus, or, The art of wheedling or insinuation : obtain'd by general conversation, and extracted from the several humours, inclinations, and passions of both sexes, respecting their several ages, and suiting each profession or occupation / Collected and methodized by the author of the first part of the English rogue.

1 print : stipple, with watercolour ; image 22 x 27 cm

Lum Smith, the Philadelphia crank and notorious swindler of advertisers : publisher of the fraud advertising circular.

xxiv, 724 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds / by Charles Mackay ; with facsimile title pages and reproductions of original illustrations from the editions of 1841 and 1852 ; with a foreword by Bernard M. Baruch.

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Christopher Atkinson, a fraudster. Etching, 1786(?).

A Chinese man is hanging up from a rope attached to a wooden structure and resting on a bamboo stick held by two Chinese men. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

Lum Smith, the Philadelphia crank and notorious swindler of advertisers : publisher of the fraud advertising circular.

Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds / by Charles Mackay ; with facsimile title pages and reproductions of original illustrations from the editions of 1841 and 1852 ; with a foreword by Bernard M. Baruch.