An epistle from Jonathan Wild, to Colonel Chartres

People / Organizations

• A. Moore (pseud.) ("sold by")

Imprint

London : printed, and sold by A. Moore, and the booksellers of London & Westminster, 1730.

Publication year

1730

ESTC No.

N1418

Grub Street ID

4068

Description

8p. ; 2°.

Note

Not in fact by Jonathan Wild

Verse

An attack on Colonel Chartres, written after his trial and before his pardon, in which Wild is represented as coming from hell to warn him of his approaching doom

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious.

Uncontrolled note

See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43