Memoirs of the life and times, of the famous Jonathan Wild, together with the history and lives, of modern rogues, Several of 'em his Acquaintance, that have been executed before and since his death, for the High-Way, Pad, Shop-Lifting, House-Breaking, Picking of Pockets, and impudent Robbing in the Streets, and at Court. Never before made Publick. Writen by Capt. Alexander Smith, Author of the History of the High-Way-Men in Three Volumes. Royal Concubines and Gamesters. Intermixt with strange Discoveries of several unheard of barbarous Murders; all taken out of the Records of Newgate, continued down to the present Times. Adorn'd with cuts.
- Smith, Alexander, active 1714-1726.
- Date:
- 1726
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for Sam. Briscoe, at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill. and sold by J. Jackson, in the Pall Mall. J. Isted, J. Crokalt, and T. Worrall, in Fleet-Street, 1726.
Physical description
[2],xii,287,[13]p.,plates ; 120.
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References note
ESTC T140167
Reproduction note
Facsimile. New York, NY Garland Pub., 1973. (Foundations of the novel).
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.