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Tom gay's comical Jester, or The wit's merry medley : Being a new and most beautiful collection of brilliant jests, funny jokes, merry stories, humorous adventures, pleasant tales, smart repartees, witty quibbles, & Irish bulls, &c. &c. To which is added, a curious collection of new conundrums, rebusses and riddles, sharp epigrams, droll epitaphs, amorous, poems, songs, fables, &c. The whole being entirely freed from that dulness which infects most other jest books-and is calculated to kill care, banish sorrow, promote mirth, crack the sides, choar the heart, and prove an everlasting gordial for low spirits.
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- Author/Creator:
- Gay, Tom.
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wit and humor--Early works to 1800.
- Wit and humor.
- Genre:
- Jestbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 60 pages,plate ; 12⁰
- Other Title:
- Comical jester
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespear's-head in Pater-noster-Row. And sold by all other booksellers in England, [1770?]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Tom Gay is probably a pseudonym.
- Price in square brackets: (Price Six-pence.)
- 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, T175500.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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