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• A minute and particular account of that arch impostor, Charles Price : ... wherein the whole of his various forgeries and frauds are circumstantially related; ... including that desperate undertaking of forgeries on the Bank of England
  Published: (1786)
• The Sixth edition much improved, being a more minute and particular account of that arch-impostor, Charles Price : 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, including that desperate undertaking of forgeries on the Bank of England. In the carrying on of which, he, in the most artful and surprising manner, [defied] every mode of detection, set on foot by the directors and the magistrates of Bow-street, for a series of six years. With the edition is given, as a frontispiece, an exact representation of [his] person, in the disguise he wore when he negotiated his his first parcel of counterfeit bank notes, in the year 1780, and likewise another portrait of him in his usual dress
  Published: (1786)
• The fifth edition, much improved, being a more minute and particular account of that arch impostor Charles Price : 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 fraud are circumstantially related; together with his Origin, and all the materia Occurrences of his Life, including 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
  Published: (1786)
• Memoirs of a social monster : or, the history of Charles Price, ... commonly called Old Patch. Containing an accurate account of the astonishing frauds and ingenious forgeries of that truly great man
  Published: (1790)
• Memoirs of a social monster : or, the history of Charles Price, Otherwise Bolingbroke, otherwise Johnson, otherwise Parks, otherwise Wigmore, otherwise Brank, otherwise Wilmott, otherwise Williams, otherwise Schutz, otherwise Trevors, otherwise Polton, otherwise Taylor, otherwise Powel, &c. &c. &c. and commonly called Old Patch. Containing an accurate account of the astonishing fraud and ingenious forgeries of that truly great man, On the Governor and Company of the Bank of England for a Series of Six Years. Including A faithful Detail of his Devices and Depredations on Society for a Period of Fifty-Five Years
  Published: (1786)