Joe Miller's jests or, the wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests; the Politest Repartees; the most Elegant Bons Mots, and most pleasant short Stories in the English Language. First carefully collected in the Company, and many of them transcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman, whose Name they bear; and now set forth and published by his lamentable Friend and former Companion, Elijah Jenkins, Esq; Most Humbly Inscribed To those Choice-Spirits of the age, Captain Bodens, Mr. Alexander Pope, Mr. Professor Lacy, Mr. Orator Henley, and Job Baker, the Kettle-Drummer
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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London
printed and sold by T. Read, in Dogwell-Court, White-Fryars, Fleet-Street
1739, MDCCXXXIX. [1739]
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| Edition: | The third edition |
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | Compiled by John Mottley. - English Short Title Catalog, T63558. - Price from imprint: price One Shilling. - Reproduction of original from British Library |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (80p) 8° |