An Authentic account of forgeries and frauds of various kinds committed by that most consummate adept in deception, Charles Price, otherwise Patch, many years a lottery office keeper, in London and Westminster
Subtitle: who, to avoid an ignominious death, destroyed himself in Tothill-Fields Bridewell, on the 24th of January, 1786
Series: Making of modern law
Publisher: Printed for the editor, (by whose permission, these memoirs first appeared in the English Chronicle) and sold by G. Kearsley
Published: 1786
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Criminals; Crime and the press
Other titles: Authentic account of the numerous and most extraordinary frauds
Notes: Subtitle: Published principally to gratify the curiosity of the people, concerning a man who had bassled every mode of detection, set on foot by the directors of the Bank of England, and a magistrates of Bow-Street, for upwards of five years, with which is given as a frontispiece, an exact representation of his person, in the disguise which he wore when he negotiated his first parcel of Counterfeit Bank notes, in the year 1780, and likewise his portrait in his usual dress.

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