Yorick's jests : or, wit's common-place book, arranged on a new plan. Being a choice collection of humourous jests, happy bons-mots, Strange Adventures, Whimsical Sayings, Difficult Riddles, Perplexing Aenigmas, Smart Repartees, Ridiculous Blunders, Droll Tales, Pleasant Stories, Keen Epigrams, Puzzling Rebusses, Original Cross-Readings, &c. &c. &c. Selected From The Works And Anecdotes Of Voltaire, Foote, Ld. Chesterfield, Dr. Johnson, Mat. Prior, Dean Swift, Sterne, Quin, Thornton, Garrick, Colman, Chase Price, G. A. Stevens, Beau Nash, Ned Shuter, Geo. Selwyn, Col. Boden, &c. &c. And other Celebrated Wits of the Last and Present Age. To which is added, a choice selection of toasts and sentiments.

Format:

Book

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English wit and humor--Early works to 1800.

English wit and humor.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages,viii,12,*13-*20,20-36,*37-*40,37-136 pages : illustrations ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for S. Bladon, Paternoster-Row, 1783.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Braces in imprint.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T128601.

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Restricted for use by site license.