Peter Cunningham's New jest book [electronic resource], or, modern high life below stairs. Containing The Newest, Drollest, Queerest, Compleatest, most Comical, most Facetious, and best Collection (ever offered to the Inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland) Of AtDiverting Jests, Funny Jokes, Frolicksome Stories, Humorous Sayings, Entertaining Tales, Lively Bonmots, Pleasant Adventures, Keen Repartees, Merry Waggartes, Excellent Puns, Curious Bulls, Irish, Scotch, and English; Smart Quibbles, Agreeable Humbugs, Witty Gibes, and other Flashes of Merriment. To Which Are Added, The following humorous and agreeable Articles, viz. New, Merry, and Ingenious Conundrums, Rebusses, Riddles, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Poems, Acrosties, and other Witticisms. Together With An entire new Selection of Toasts, Sentiments, Hobnobs, &c. at this Time used in the best Companies in London and Westminster. Calculated for both Sexes, to kill Care, to banish Sorrow, and to promote Mirth, Fun, Jollity, and Good Humour: Almost the Whole of this Work being really New, and written on Purpose, by Peter Cunningham, Esq; Professor of Drollery at Oxford; assisted by Bet Rigby, President of a Club of Female Wits in the Haymarket. Would you be eas'd of Care and Grief; Here shall you find a sweet Relief; Read, and you'll find in ev'ry Page, True Wit and Humour to engage.
1780
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Peter Cunningham's New jest book [electronic resource], or, modern high life below stairs. Containing The Newest, Drollest, Queerest, Compleatest, most Comical, most Facetious, and best Collection (ever offered to the Inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland) Of AtDiverting Jests, Funny Jokes, Frolicksome Stories, Humorous Sayings, Entertaining Tales, Lively Bonmots, Pleasant Adventures, Keen Repartees, Merry Waggartes, Excellent Puns, Curious Bulls, Irish, Scotch, and English; Smart Quibbles, Agreeable Humbugs, Witty Gibes, and other Flashes of Merriment. To Which Are Added, The following humorous and agreeable Articles, viz. New, Merry, and Ingenious Conundrums, Rebusses, Riddles, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Poems, Acrosties, and other Witticisms. Together With An entire new Selection of Toasts, Sentiments, Hobnobs, &c. at this Time used in the best Companies in London and Westminster. Calculated for both Sexes, to kill Care, to banish Sorrow, and to promote Mirth, Fun, Jollity, and Good Humour: Almost the Whole of this Work being really New, and written on Purpose, by Peter Cunningham, Esq; Professor of Drollery at Oxford; assisted by Bet Rigby, President of a Club of Female Wits in the Haymarket. Would you be eas'd of Care and Grief; Here shall you find a sweet Relief; Read, and you'll find in ev'ry Page, True Wit and Humour to engage.
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London : Printed for Funny Joe, No. 16, Pater-Noster-Row; and sold by all booksellers and newscarriers in England, [1780?]
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pp.[5],14-68,plate ; 12mo.
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Peter Cunningham is a pseudonym.
Braces in imprint.
Price from imprint: price only Six Pence.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Peter Cunningham is a pseudonym.
Braces in imprint.
Price from imprint: price only Six Pence.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.
ESTC staff note
Advertisement within for 'The town and country jester', which is dated 1780 by internal evidence
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English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), T129403
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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