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Shakspeare's jest book.

Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858, editor.; Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858, former owner.; Utterson, Edward Vernon, 1775 or 1776-1856, former owner.; Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863, former owner, illustrator.
1814
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Title
Shakspeare's jest book.
Created/published
Chiswick : C. Whittingham, 1814-15.
Description
xxxii, 116, [2], xxviii, 121, [3], xi, 26, [2] p. : ill., facsims. ; 20 cm
Associated name
Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858, editor.
copy 1 Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858, former owner.
copy 1 Utterson, Edward Vernon, 1775 or 1776-1856, former owner.
copy 2 Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863, former owner, illustrator.
Note
2 parts dated on t.-p.'s 1814 and 1815, and supplement.

Edited by Samuel Weller Singer.
Contents
v. 1. Tales, and quicke answeres
v. 2. A.C. mery talys.
Includes
Tales and quick answers.
Hundre'd merry tales.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
PR2199 .T1 1814 copy 1 Cage
Folger-specific note
Armorial bookplate (motto: Spe otti laboro): Edward Vernon Utterson. Manuscript presentation note from the editor to Utterson. Few manuscript notes.
Folger accession
cs175
Call number
PR2199 .T1 1814 copy 2 Cage
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: v.1 only. Disbound and housed in a case with stamp: Made by Zaehnsdorf. Drawings in ink and pencil illustrating tales, on the margins of six pages, by former owner W.M. Thackeray.
Folger accession
cs614

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