The life and glorious actions of the most heroic and magnanimous Jonathan Wilde, generalissimo of the prig-forces in Great-Britain and Ireland. Introduced with the most Memorable Passages in the lives of his ancestors; and concluding With his behaviour in Newgate, and at the place of Execution. With an explanation of the most usual terms of art in the canting dialect.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robbery--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Robbery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (63,[1]p.,plate ) port. ;

Other Title:

Life and glorious actions of the most heroic and magnanimous Jonathan Wilde,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for H. Whitridge, in Searle-Street by Lincolns-Inn Back-Gate, 1725.

Notes:

The account is mostly devoted to Wild's supposed Irish ancestry.

Includes 'An epitaph on Jonathan Wild. By Mr. S. C.', in verse, on p.63.

Price from imprint: price One Shilling.

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N3340.

OCLC:

642194608