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The art of joking : or, an essay on witticism; in the manner of Mr. Pope's Essay on criticism: with Proper Examples to the Risible Rules. To which is added The laws of laughing, and the contrast, or a Joke and a Jest, In small compass exprest.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Smilewell, Samuel.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Joking--Early works to 1800.
Joking.
Genre:
Essays.
Poems.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (63,[1]p. )
Other Title:
Art of joking
Place of Publication:
London : printed for Joseph Deveulle, Bookseller, No. 14, Coventry-Street, near the Hay-Market, [1774?]
Notes:
Signed at end: Samuel Smilewell.
'The laws of laughing' is in prose, and the remainder in verse.
With a half-title.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T22457.
OCLC:
642548744

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