Yorick's jests: or, wit's common-place book, arranged on a new plan. Being a choice collection of humourous jests, happy bons-mots, Strange Adventures, Whimsical Sayings, Difficult Riddles, Perplexing Aenigmas, Smart Repartees, Ridiculous Blunders, Droll Tales, Pleasant Stories, Keen Epigrams, Puzzling Rebusses, Original Cross-Readings, &c. &c. &c. Selected From The Works And Anecdotes Of Voltaire, Foote, Ld. Chesterfield, Dr. Johnson, Mat. Prior, Dean Swift, Sterne, Quin, Thornton, Garrick, Colman, Chase Price, G. A. Stevens, Beau Nash, Ned Shuter, Geo. Selwyn, Col. Boden, &c. &c. And other Celebrated Wits of the Last and Present Age. To which is added, a choice selection of toasts and sentiments.

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1783
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London : printed for S. Bladon, Paternoster-Row, 1783.

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[2],viii,12,*13-*20,20-36,*37-*40,37-136p. : ill. ; 120.

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