Joe Miller's jests [electronic resource], or, the wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, the most excellent bons mots, and most pleasant short stories in the English Language; many of them transcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman whose Name they bear. To which are added, choice collections of moral sentences, and of the most pointed and truly valuable epigrams in the British Tongue; With the Names of the Authors to such as are known. Most humbly Inscribed To those choice spirits of the age, His Majesty's Poet-Laureat, Mr. David Garrick, Mr. The. Cibber, Mr. Justice Bodens's Horse, Tom Jones, the most impudent Man living, the Rev. Mr. Henley, and Job Baker the Kettle-Drummer.
1775
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Joe Miller's jests [electronic resource], or, the wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, the most excellent bons mots, and most pleasant short stories in the English Language; many of them transcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman whose Name they bear. To which are added, choice collections of moral sentences, and of the most pointed and truly valuable epigrams in the British Tongue; With the Names of the Authors to such as are known. Most humbly Inscribed To those choice spirits of the age, His Majesty's Poet-Laureat, Mr. David Garrick, Mr. The. Cibber, Mr. Justice Bodens's Horse, Tom Jones, the most impudent Man living, the Rev. Mr. Henley, and Job Baker the Kettle-Drummer.
Edition
A new edition.
Created/published
London : Printed for T. Axtel, at the Royal Exchange, [1775?]
Description
191,[1]p : ill. ; 12mo.
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Compiled by John Mottley.
Price from imprint: price One Shilling and Six-Pence.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
Compiled by John Mottley.
Price from imprint: price One Shilling and Six-Pence.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.
ESTC staff note
Frontis=ill. Maxted shows Thomas Axtell at the Royal Exchange 1774-6
Cited/described in
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), T208011
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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