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109 KING, Richard. The New Cheats of London Exposed: or, the frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes. London: printed for Alex. Hogg, [1780?] The lowlife of Georgian London Early edition of this guide for “innocent country people” warning them of the crime and immorality of the capital; very scarce, with ESTC locating only six copies. “There are more depredations, frauds, thefts and whoredoms committed in London in one week, than were in ancient Rome in twelve months” (p. v). The country visitor is warned of pimps, prostitutes, pickpockets, highwaymen, and burglars, alongside conjurers, fortune tellers, and lottery scammers. The techniques of the criminals are revealed, alongside the best means of avoiding and countering them. The frontispiece depicts an elderly father handing the guide to his children, one weeping, before they set off for London. Multiple editions were published over the closing decades of the century, the earliest dated edition in 1778 as The Frauds of London Detected . ESTC locates copies in the British and Bodleian libraries in the UK, and the Huntington, New York Society, New York University, and University of Minnesota libraries in the US. Duodecimo (195 × 111 mm). Bound in contemporary speckled calf boards, sometime neatly rebacked, possibly a remboîtage, all edges uncut. Frontispiece and 3 copper
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108 KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936 ONE OF THE DEFINING BOOKS OF THE CENTURY First edition of perhaps the most significant economics book of the 20th century, scarce in the dust jacket. The General Theory was written in the aftermath of the Great Depression, when the old economic order was widely seen to have failed. Keynes argued that government must intervene in the economy, directing wages, investment, and demand, in order to achieve full employment and end the boom and bust cycle. In so doing, a middle way was found between the laissez-faire policy of classical political economy, as founded by Adam Smith in the 18th
century, and the complete state control of socialist governments, derived from Marx’s theories of the 19th century. Keynes’s system of controlled capitalism defined much of the 20th century, as it was embraced by the political left and right alike across Western Europe and the United States. Keynes’s theories became the near-undisputed economic orthodoxy of the decades following the war, until the counter-attack of the monetarist and neoliberal schools undermined his hegemony. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, rules continuing to covers in blind. With dust jacket. Tiny indentation to spine, a notably bright example of the book, expert restoration to lower jacket spine and front panel smoothing out tear, otherwise fresh with price intact. ¶ Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man 423. £12,500 [152760]
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