Subject
English wit and humor
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Joe Miller's Jests: or, the wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests; the politest repartees; the most elegant bons mots, and most pleasant short stories in the English language. First carefully collected in the Company, and many of them transcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman, whose Name they bear; and now set forth and published by his lamentable Friend and former Companion, Elijah Jenkins, Esq; Most Humbly Inscribed To those Choice-Spirits of the Age, Captain Bodens, Mr. Alexander Pope, Mr. Professor Lacy, Mr. Orator Henley, and Job Baker, the Kettle-Drummer.
Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The jolly jester; or the wit's complete library. Containing a rich fund of entertainment ... By Marmaduke Momus, ...
Momus, Marmaduke.Date: 1794- Books
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The new theatre of fun; or, the modern Aristophanes in high glee. Being a genuine collection of the jests, gibes, witticisms, ... of Samuel Foote, Esq; including also those of Lord Lyttleton, Mess. Garrick and Churchill, ...
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.Date: 1778- Books
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Joe Miller's jests. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, and most pleasant short stories in the English Language. The greater Part of which are taken from the mouth of that facetious gentleman whose name they bear.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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Joe Miller's jests: or, the wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, the most excellent Bons Mots, and most pleasant short Stories in the English Language; many of them transcribed from the mouth of the facetious gentleman, whose name they bear. To which are added, choice collections of moral sentences. And of the most pointed and truly valuable Epigrams in the British Tongue; With the Names of the Authors to such as are known. Most humbly Inscribed To those Choice-Spirits of the Age, His Majesty's Poet - Laureat, Mr. David Garrick, Mr. The. Cibber, Mr. Justice Bodens's Horse, Tom Jones, the most Impudent Man living, the Rev. Mr. Henley, and Job Baker, the Kettle-Drummer.
Date: [1755?]