Fraud, Thrift and Frugal Meals.- Pleasant Art of Money-Catching (The)..., fourth edition, "corrected and much enlarged", woodcut frontispiece depicting a rich man with money bags turning away a poor man, with final contents leaf, contemporary ink signature of Robert Lenny to head of title and to verso of frontispiece, the latter with another later inscription of Robert Salter of Rishangles, Suffolk, no endpapers, contemporary calf, rubbed, ink signatures and marks to covers, rebacked, 12mo, for A.Bettesworth and C.Hitch..., 1737.

⁂ First published in 1684 by John Dunton with at least ten further editions appearing over the next hundred or so years, edited variously but principally by Alexander Montgomery of Glasgow. According to ESTC an earlier edition is described as "composed by N.H." but contains extracts from the writings of Henry Peacham. The work is an interesting and fascinating vade mecum covering a very wide range of subject matter from economics through to social conditions of the time. It includes guides to surviving without money (some fraudulent such as arriving in towns finely dressed in the hope of receiving free hospitality from the gentry) and eighty recipes for "wholesome dishes, upon most of which a Man may live for two pence a Day".

All editions are scarce; ESTC lists only 4 UK copies of this edition (BL, Guildhall and 2 in Bodleian, Oxford).