Yorick's jests: Being a new collection of jokes, witticisms, bons mots and anecdotes, of the genuine sons of wit and humour of the last and present age. Containing a great number of humorous, diverting, and entertaining jests and stories, never before published in a book of the kind. To which are added, a new and choice selection of poems, fables, tales, epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, rebuses, and enigmas; and a complete collection of the most fashionable and favourite toasts, sentiments, and hob nobs, now in vogue. The whole being intended as an antidote for the spleen, vapours, and melancholy.

Date:

MDCCLXXIV. [1774]