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Images about Swindlers and swindling
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13 works
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Christopher Atkinson, a fraudster. Etching, 1786(?).
Date: 21 June [1786?]Reference: 559443i- Books
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.
Richard HeadDate: 1675
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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.
Date: 1 Jany. 1801Reference: 579694i- Books
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The fool and the knave uncas'd or A true narrative of the abominable cheats of Vincent & Collins, two Domincan friers [sic] living in London.
Date: Printed in the year 1678- E-books
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Lum Smith, the Philadelphia crank and notorious swindler of advertisers : publisher of the fraud advertising circular.
Date: [approximately 1886]