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The fourth edition, much improved being a more minute and particular account of that arch impostor Charles Price, [electronic resource] : Otherwise Patch, otherwise Wilmot, otherwise Powel, otherwise Brant, &c. &c. &c. many years a Stock-Broker and Lottery-Office-Keeper In London and Westminster: in this edition the whole of his various forgeries and frauds are circumstantially related; together with his Origin, and all the material occurrences of his life, equally disgraceful to human Nature, till he began that desperate undertaking of forgeries on the Bank of England. In the carrying on of which, he, in the most artful and surprising Manner, baffled every Mode of Detection, set on foot by the Directors and the Magistrates of Bow-Street, for a Series of Six Years. With this Edition is given, as a Frontispiece, an exact Representation of his Person, in the Disguise he wore when he negotiated his first Parcel of Counterfeit Bank Notes, in the Year 1780, and likewise another Portrait of him in his usual Dress.

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The fourth edition, much improved being a more minute and particular account of that arch impostor Charles Price, [electronic resource] : Otherwise Patch, otherwise Wilmot, otherwise Powel, otherwise Brant, &c. &c. &c. many years a Stock-Broker and Lottery-Office-Keeper In London and Westminster: in this edition the whole of his various forgeries and frauds are circumstantially related; together with his Origin, and all the material occurrences of his life, equally disgraceful to human Nature, till he began that desperate undertaking of forgeries on the Bank of England. In the carrying on of which, he, in the most artful and surprising Manner, baffled every Mode of Detection, set on foot by the Directors and the Magistrates of Bow-Street, for a Series of Six Years. With this Edition is given, as a Frontispiece, an exact Representation of his Person, in the Disguise he wore when he negotiated his first Parcel of Counterfeit Bank Notes, in the Year 1780, and likewise another Portrait of him in his usual Dress.

Publisher

London : printed for the editor, (by whose permission small part only of these memoirs first appeared in the English Chronicle.) And sold by G. Kearsley, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]

Uniform title

Authentic account of forgeries and frauds of various kinds.

Date

MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]

Record Identifier

74Vv42NQlK2b

MMS ID

991015337939702626

Language

English

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68p.,plate : ports. ; 8°.

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Publisher

London : printed for the editor, (by whose permission small part only of these memoirs first appeared in the English Chronicle.) And sold by G. Kearsley, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]

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The fourth edition, much improved being a more minute and particular account of that arch impostor Charles Price, [electronic resource] : Otherwise Patch, otherwise Wilmot, otherwise Powel, otherwise Brant, &c. &c. &c. many years a Stock-Broker and Lottery-Office-Keeper In London and Westminster: in this edition the whole of his various forgeries a...

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Originally published as 'An authentic account of forgeries and frauds of various kinds committed by .. Charles Price', London, 1786.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

With a half-title.

Citation / References Note

ESTC T136722.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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991015337939702626