Published by Effingham Wilson, and brought out when the reform excitement was commencing, it produced a considerable sensation, and fifty thousand copies were sold.
[1] In 1826 he wrote for Longmans The Cabinet Lawyer: a Popular Digest of the Laws of England, the twenty-fifth edition of which appeared in 1829.
Effingham Wilson paid Wade a weekly salary for years while he was compiling it, and supplied him with works of reference.
[1][3] Wade also edited an annotated Junius, including Letters by the same Writer under other signatures, (1850, in Bohn's "Standard Library", 2 vols.).
Here he was out of his depth, and the imperfections of his edition, and especially of his introduction, were pointed out by Charles W. Dilke in the ‘Athenæum’ of 2 Feb. et seq.