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MCGUIRE, Thomas. Professional Beggars: being Sketches of Beggars, Begging Letter Writers and Impostors, from Personal Observation. Calcutta: P.S. d'Rozario & Co., 1884. 8°. 11 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Fred. C. Rogers (occasional very light staining and spotting). Original brown decorated calf gilt (rubbed, head and foot of spine and one corner worn, upper inner hinge cracked). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author at head of title 'To Dr F.A.A. Smith M.D. With the authors respects Thos McGuire'.
An amusing, but sharp, denunciation of the class of English busybody, impostor and sponge in general, characterised by Dickens and Wilkie Collins, which was plaguing India at the end of the nineteenth century. McGuire has divided them into ten groups, each comically observed by F.C. Rogers -- Mother and Daughter, The Religious Impostor, The Genteel Impostor, The Literary Impostor, The Loafer of the Period, &c. -- and says generally of them all '... it has ever been, and is now at the present time of writing, the daily practice of finished, educated, and most systematic experts, to fleece the indiscriminate givers of charity in the city'. RARE.
An amusing, but sharp, denunciation of the class of English busybody, impostor and sponge in general, characterised by Dickens and Wilkie Collins, which was plaguing India at the end of the nineteenth century. McGuire has divided them into ten groups, each comically observed by F.C. Rogers -- Mother and Daughter, The Religious Impostor, The Genteel Impostor, The Literary Impostor, The Loafer of the Period, &c. -- and says generally of them all '... it has ever been, and is now at the present time of writing, the daily practice of finished, educated, and most systematic experts, to fleece the indiscriminate givers of charity in the city'. RARE.
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