Jack Smart's Merry jester : or, the wit's compleat treasury. Being a most Excellent Collection of Entertaining Jests, Curious Quibbles, Tart Repartees, Pleasant Tales, Smart Jokes, Comical Stories, Keen Waggeries, Modern Humbugs, Agreeable Adventures, And excellent Bulls. To which is added, a beautiful collection of entire new rebusses and riddles, comical Conundrums, stinging Epigrams, Acrostics, queer Epitaphs, jovial Songs, merry Tales, choice Fables, Pastorals, &c. &c. The whole of this Performance being nothing but Cream; and is entirely freed from all that old insipid Stuff, which abounds in most other Jesters; and is certainly the compleatest, merriest, and best Thing of the Kind every yet published.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smart, Jack, Author of "Jack Smart's merry jester".

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anecdotes--Early works to 1800.

Anecdotes.

English wit and humor--Early works to 1800.

English wit and humor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],144p.,plate )

Edition:

The second edition.

Other Title:

Jack Smart's Merry jester

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Fuller, in Ave-Maria-Lane; and Sold by all other Booksellers in England, [1755?]

Notes:

Titlepage in red and black.

Jack Smart is probably a pseudonym.

Braces in imprint.

Price from imprint: price One Shilling.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T119603.

OCLC:

642320829