The Jester's magazine: or, The monthly merry-maker : For ...

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Standardized Title:

Jester's magazine: or, The monthly merry-maker (London, England : Monthly).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humor--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Humor.

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (15 v. )

Monthly

Numb. I. (October 1765.)-numb. XV. (December 1766.)

Other Title:

Jester's magazine

Place of Publication:

London [England] : printed and sold by S. Bladon, in Pater-noster-Row; J. Williams, in Fleet-Street; J. Kingman, near the Royal-Exchange; by most booksellers; and by the persons who sell news, 1765-1766.

Notes:

Mostly in verse.

Portion of title and date of issue repeated as running title.

Imprint for no. 1 includes year of publication; later imprints lack dates.

Below imprint in square brackets: Price only three-pence.

Issue date below title; issue number above imprint.

Note follows issue number on no. 1-14: To be continu'd monthly.

Note in no. 1: each issue intended to be published on the first day of the month following.

No. 15 (Dec. 1766) has note: Being the last.

In two columns with continuous pagination.

Light, comic, romantic verse, with jokes, puzzles and anecdotes.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Note at end of no. 14 (Nov. 1766) reads: The fifteenth number will be publish'd the first of January [1767].

Collected in one volume, with an index, issued in 1767.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1304

Times handlist, p. 43

Crane & Kaye, 1465

English Short Title Catalog, P3406.

OCLC:

508356798