The tricks of London laid open : being a true caution to both sexes in town and country. ...

The tricks of the town laid open: or, A companion for country gentlemen : Being the substance of seventeen letters from a gentleman at London to his friend in the country, to disswade him from coming to town. I. The country gentleman is caution'd against coming to London, and his mistake shew'd with regard to his city conversation. II. The pleasures of a country life are vindicated, and asserted to be preferable to that of a town one. III. The country has the same opportunities of improving our knowledge as the town. IV. A general reflection on the mannner and humours of the town, with a description of the present state of it. V. A disswasive against idleness, with the character of a sot. VI. The characters of a beau and a gamester. VII. The humours, customs and tricks of the playhouse, are discover'd and expos'd. VIII. A continuation of the humours of the playhouse, with observations on their constitution, and manner of government. IX. The humours, tricks and cheats of the tennis-courts are expos'd and detected. X. The tricks and cheats of bowling Gr[e]ens are discover'd, with an account of their methods of betting, &c. XI. The humours of the groom-porters, and the cheats of ordinaries, and other gaming-houses are expos'd. XII. The tricks of cockers and cock-matches, and the cheat of horse-races, and foot-matches, are discover'd. XIII. The villany of money droppers is expos'd, are the roguish methods they take to impose on countrymen. XIV. The tricks of bawds and whores are detected, with a description of a bawdy-house and the art of trapping. XV. The characters of a bully, setter and spunger. XVI. Particular observations and reflections upon several distinct occurrences of the town. XVII. The country gentleman is directed in the disposal of his estate in his absence, and in the management of himself in London.
by: Gentleman at London, active 1746
Published: (1746)

Dens and sinks of London laid open : Embellished with humorous illustrations by George Cruikshank.
Published: (1971)

The new cheats of London exposed; or, The frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes : Being a warning-piece against the iniquitous practices of that metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villanies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions, deceptions, which are daily practised in London,-by bawds, beggars, bullies, children strippers, duffers, fortune tellers, footpads, gossips, gamblers, hangers-on, highwaymen, house-breakers, jilts, intelligencers, Jew defaulters, informers, kidnappers, mock auctioneers, money droppers, pimps, pretended friends, pettyfoggers, procurers, procuresses, pickpockets, quacks, ring droppers, receivers of stolen goods, spungers, sharpers, swindlers, smugglers, shop-lifters, street robbers, trappers, way-layers, waggon-hunters, whores, &c. &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admontions, salutary hints and observations, whereby rogues and cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided; the whole laid down in a plain, and easy manner, to enable innocent country people to be completely on their guard, and avoid the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches, who live by robbery and deceiving the young and credulous of both sexes. Written from experience and observation, by Richard King, Esq. Embellished with an emblematical frontispiece. Peruse these, sheets, and you will find true pictures of the vicious kind; of cheats who stroll from street to street, and make a prey of all they meet.
by: King, Richard
Published: (1778)

The new cheats of London exposed; or the frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes : Being a guard against the iniquitous practices of that metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villanies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions, and deceptions which are daily practised in London, by bawds and bullies duffers fortune tellers gamblers gossips hangers-on jilts intelligencers Jew defaulters insolvents kidnappers lottery office keepers mock auctioneers money droppers ring droppers pimps pretended friends procurers procuresses quacks receivers of stolen goods setters spungers sharpers swindlers smugglers shop lifters street robbers trappers way-layers waggon hunters whores, &c. &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admonitions salutary hints and observations whereby rogues and cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided, by the instructions herein contained. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a manner, as to enable the most innocent country people to be completely on their guard, how to avoid the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches, who live by villany and fraud.
by: King, Richard, Esq

The new cheats of London exposed; or the frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes : Being a guard against the iniquitous practices of the metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villainies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions and deceptions, which are daily practised in London, by bawds and bullies duffers fortune tellers gamblers gossips hangers-on jilts intelligencers Jew defaulters insolvents kidnappers lottery office keepers mock auctioneers money droppers ring droppers pimps pretended friends procurers procuresses quacks receivers of stolen goods setters spungers sharpers swindlers smugglers shop lifters street robbers trappers way-layers waggon hunters whores, &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admonitions, salutary hints and observations, whereby rogues cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided, by the instructions contained. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a manner, as to enable the most innocent country people to be completely on their guard, how to avoid the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches, who live by villany and fraud.
by: King, Richard, Esq
Published: (1799)

Trick upon Trick : Being an account of all the cheats of both prisons, the Queen's-Bench, and Fleet, to their creditors, during their confinement, and in the liberty of the rules. Written by one that was a Prisoner in both places.
by: One that was a prisoner in both places (the Queen's-Bench, and Fleet)
Published: (1703)

The new cheats of London exposed; or, The frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes : Being a guard against the iniquitous practices of that metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villanies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions, and deceptions, which are daily practised in London, by bawds, bullies, duffers, fortune-tellers, gamblers, gossips, hangers-on, jilts, intelligencers, Jew-defaulters, insolvents, kidnappers, lottery-office-keepers, mock-auctioneers, money-droppers, ring-droppers, pimps, pretended friends, procurers, procuresses, quacks, receivers of stolen goods, setters, spungers, sharpers, swindlers, smugglers, shop-listers, street-robbers, trappers, way-layers, waggon-hunters, whores, &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admonitions, salutary hints and observations, whereby rogues and cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided, by the instructions herein contained. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a manner, as to enable the most innocent country people to be completely on their guard how to avoid the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches, who live by villany and fraud. Written from experience and observation by Thomas Brown, author of the New London spy, also published by C. Cooke. Embellished with emblematical copper-plates.
by: King, Richard, Esq
Published: (1790)

The conspiracy of the aristocrats laid open.

The new cheats of London exposed : the frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes. Being a guard against the iniquitious [as printed] practices of that metropolis. ...
by: King, Richard, Esq

Tricks hot, tricks cold /
by: Barton, Lee W.
Published: (1969)

The elaboratory laid open : or, the secrets of modern chemistry and pharmacy revealed: ...
by: Dossie, Robert, -1777

The elaboratory laid open : or, the secrets of modern chemistry and pharmacy revealed: ...
by: Dossie, Robert, -1777

Sinks of London laid open : a pocket companion for the uninitiated : to which is added a modern flash dictionary containing all the cant words, slang terms and flash phrases now in vogue : with a list of the sixty orders of prime coves ... embellished with humorous illustrations by George Cruikshank.
Published: (1848)

The trick of it /
by: Frayn, Michael
Published: (1989)

Tricked /
by: Hearne, Kevin
Published: (2012)

Trick /
by: Starnone, Domenico, 1943-
Published: (2018)

Tricks /
by: Hopkins, Ellen
Published: (2009)

Tricked /
Published: (2016)

Trick upon trick : or the vintner in the suds. A farce: as it is now acted.
by: Yarrow, Joseph

Trick for trick; or, The hasty cuckold. : Dedicated to the greatest in Christendom.
Published: (1714)

Tricks : 25 encounters /
by: Camus, Renaud, 1946-
Published: (1981)

The trick : new stories /
by: Dawson, Fielding, 1930-2002
Published: (1991)

Smuggling laid open : in all its extensive and destructive branches; with proposals for the effectual remedy of that most iniquitous practice: ...
by: Janssen, Stephen Theodore, Sir, Bart

The thirteenth trick.
by: Braddon, Russell
Published: (1973)

Trick or treat /
by: Moudov, Ivan, 1975-
Published: (2009)

Hat tricks /
by: Appel, Dori
Published: (2008)

Tricks of the trade /
by: Tyler, Ben
Published: (2002)

Trick of the lights /
Published: (2005)

The lemonade trick /
by: Corbett, Scott
Published: (1960)

Tricks of the trade /
by: Tyler, Ben
Published: (2001)

New tricks /
by: Rosenfelt, David
Published: (2009)

Dirty tricks /
by: Effinger, George Alec
Published: (1978)

The tricks of the trade /
by: Fo, Dario
Published: (1991)

Tricks of rascals /
by: Graves, W. W. (William Whites), 1871-1952
Published: (1905)

Science tricks /
by: Lehane, M. S.
Published: (1980)

Tricking the Tallyman /
by: Davies, Jacqueline, 1962-
Published: (2009)