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.

  • Smart, Jack, Author of "Jack Smart's merry jester".
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[1755?]
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London : printed for J. Fuller, in Ave-Maria-Lane; and Sold by all other Booksellers in England, [1755?]

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[2],144p.,plate ; 120.

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The second edition.

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ESTC T119603

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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