The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great (The Folio Society)

186, [1] pp. A novel by the author best known for The History of Tom Jones, with woodcut illustrations by Frank Martin. "The outrages that Jonathan Wild commits against the simple, virtuous Heartfree epitomize one of the most villainous but memorably comic figures in literature. Wild is methodically evil: his thefts and vces, violence and grand deceptions, are merely steppingstones in his progress toward 'greatness.'"