Frauds / Richard Aldington
1957, 1st edition. Melbourne : Heinemann. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #442257
Physical description: 4 preliminary leaves, 244 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 22 cm. Contents: Introduction: some flagrant impostors and frauds -- George Psalmanazar: bogus prince of Formosa -- Thomas Griffiths Wainewright: forger and poisoner -- Roger Tichborne or Arthur Orton? -- 'Dr.' Graham and his celestial bed, with other medical frauds -- Maundy Gregory: and honours easy -- Frauds or not frauds in literature. Subjects: Fraud. Impostors and imposture.
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