1997. Woodhall, Edwin T. Jonathan Wild, Old Time Ace Receiver. 1937. Hendrickson, Robert Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins. 1997. Mullan, John, and Christopher Reid. Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection. Oxford University Press, 2000. . 18th century sources An Authentic Narrative of the Parentage, Birth, Education and Practices of Jonathan Wild, Citizen and Thief Taker of London, broadsheet, 1725. Jonathan Wild's Last Farewell to the World. Anonymous ballad. "H.D., Clerk of Justice." The Life of Jonathan Wild, from his Birth to his Death. 1725. (Possibly by Daniel Defoe.) Defoe, Daniel ? A True & Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the late Jonathan Wild, Not made up of Fictions and Fable, but taken from his Own Mouth and collected from PAPERS of his Own Writing. June, 1725. Defoe, Daniel. A True & Genuine Account of the Life and Death of the Late Jonathan Wild. 1725. (Reprinted in various editions of Defoe's works and some editions of Henry Fielding's Jonathan Wild.) Smith, Captain Alexander. The Memoirs of the Life & Times of the famous Jonathan Wild, together with the History & Lives of Modern Rogues. 1726. External links Account of Wild's trial from The Complete Newgate Calendar via U. Texas Project Gutenberg edition of Fielding's Life of Jonathan Wild the Great Cambridge Literary History discussion of Fielding's treatment of Wild Wild's skeleton (BBC, 11 February 2005) Jonathan Wild's memorial page on Find A Grave "Jack Sheppard, Jail-Breaker" from Early Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Reports: A Sourcebook. Retrieved on 19 January 2014. The Thief-Taker Hangings: How Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Wild, and Jack Sheppard Captivated London and Created the Celebrity Criminal by Aaron Skirboll 1682 births 1725 deaths 1714 crimes in Europe Crime in London English gangsters People from Wolverhampton People executed by the Kingdom of Great Britain Executed people from Staffordshire People executed for theft People executed by England and Wales by hanging Burials at St Pancras Old Church People executed at Tyburn People imprisoned for debt Criminals from Staffordshire