Joe Miller's jests: or, The wits vade-mecum. : Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, excellent bons mots, and the most pleasant short stories in the English Language; many of them transcribed from the mouth of the fecetious gentleman whose name they bear. To which are a added, choice collection of moral sentences, and the most pointed and truly valuble epigrams in the British Tongue; with the names of the antbors ot such as are knowg. Most humbly inscribed to those choice spirits of the age, His Majesty's Poet-Laureat, Mr. David Garrick, Mr. The. Cibber, Mr. Justice Boden's house, Tom Jones, the most impudent man living, the Rev. Mr. Henley, and Job Baker, the kettle drummer.

Format:

Book

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English wit and humor.

Physical Description:

168 pages : illustrations ; 12⁰

Edition:

A new edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Barker, Dramatic Repository, Russell-Court Drury-Lane, [1796?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Price on title page: (Price One Shilling and 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, T225377.

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