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The punster's pocket-book : or, The art of punning enlarged / by Bernard Blackmantle [pseud.] ... Illustrated with numerous original designs by Robert Cruikshank.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1826 Westmac
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy), 1787 or 1788-1868.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English wit and humor.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 198 p. : ill., plates ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1826.
- Contents:
- Dedication to the king
- A word to the witty and the wise
- Description of frontpiece
- Prolegomena on punning
- Origin of punning
- Art of punning, by Swift and Sheridan
- Satire on Sheridan, by Dr. Tisdale
- Dying speech of Tom Ashe
- A pestilant neighbor
- Punning epistle on money
- God's revenge against punning, by Dr. Arbuthnot
- The birth of a pun
- Antiquity of puns
- Punning on surnames
- Punning run mad
- Bashful on punning
- Examples in punning
- W. R. V-ana
- Norburyana
- Punning epigrams
- The punster's court
- Puns for all purposes
- A punning essay
- Every man his own punster.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Dornsife/VSA.
- OCLC:
- 6590154
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