Shakespeare jest-books ; reprints of the early and very rare jest-books supposed to have been used by Shakespeare / Ed., with introduction and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt.

Shakespeare jest-books ; reprints of the early and very rare jest-books supposed to have been used by Shakespeare / Ed., with introduction and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt.

London : Willis & Sotheran, 1864.

3 v. ; 19 cm

Old English jest books ; v. 1-3

With reproductions of original title-pages.

Half-title: Old English jest-books.

The library also has several of these jest-books bound and catalogued separately.

v. 1. A hundred mery talys, from the only known copy. Mery tales and quicke answeres, from the rare edition of 1567.
v. 2. Merie tales of Skelton. Jests of Scogin. Sackfull of newes. Tarleton's jests. Merrie conceited jests of George Peele. Jacke of Dover.
v. 3. Merie tales of the mad men of Gotham. XII mery jests of the Wydow Edyth. Pasquils jests with Mother Bunches merriments. The pleasant conceits of Old Hobson. Certayne conceyts and jeasts. Taylors wit and mirth. Conceits, clinches, flashes and whimzies.

Old English jest books ; v. 1-3.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

PR2953.W5 H3

PR2953.W5 H3 Cage

Autograph of Henrietta Hazlitt; copious manuscript notes by W.C. Hazlitt.