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, Job Baker, the Kettle-Drummer, and Mr. T. W's very good Masters the Town.
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- MDCCXL. [1740]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed and sold by T. Read, in Dogwell-Court, White-Fryars, Fleet-Street, MDCCXL. [1740]
Physical description
[2],78p. ; 80.
Edition
The fourth edition with large additions.
References note
ESTC T63556
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.