Estimate: $600 - $900
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer, Part III
Auction: January 30, 2020 10:00:00 AM EDT
London: for A. Millar, 1754. First separate edition. 12mo. Complete with leaf of Millar ads, usually found after pp.v/vi, but found preceding title-page in this copy. Modern, 18th-century-style, brown calf, burgundy morocco spine label, minor wear; all edges gilt; text trimmed, presumably washed. [Rothschild 856, “first separate edition"]; ESTC N10381.
Jonathan Wild first appeared in the third volume of Fielding’s "Miscellanies" (London, 1743). For this edition, Fielding thoroughly reworked the text.