The groundworke of conny-catching, the manner of their pedlers-French, and the meanes to vnderstand the same with the cunning slights of the counterfeit cranke : therein are h[a]nd[l]ed the practises of the visiter, the fetches of the shifter and rufflar, the deceits of their doxes, the deuises of priggers, the names of the base loytering losels, and the meanes of euery blacke-art-mans shifts, with the reproofe of all the diuellish practises / done by a iustice of peace of great authoritie, who hath had the examining of diuers of them.

Abstract

Reprint (of 1592 publication) without imprint, of portion of Thomas Harman's "A caueat or warening for commen cursetors", first published in 1567.--Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints and STC (2nd ed.). Sometimes attributed to Robert Greene--Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints. Signatures: A⁴(A1+*1) B-F⁴. Illustrated t.p. Printing error: the initial "H" on A2r is printed up-side-down. Copy at reel 379:10 identified as STC 12789+. Reproductions of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.