Joe Miller's Jests. Or, the Wit's Vade Mecum: Being A Collection of the most Brilliant Jests, Excellent Bon Mots, and the most pleasant short stories, in the English Language. With considerable additions. A Collection of Witty and Moral Sentences, And the most pointed and truly valuable Epigrams and Epitaphs, With the Names of the Authors, in such as are know. Inscribed to the Choice Spirits of the Age: A New Edition.

MOTTLEY (John), compiler

Published by London: Printed and Published by J. Barker Dramatic Repository Great Russell-Street Coven-Garden no date, 1807

About this Item

12mo, 190 x 108 mms., pp. [ii], [5] 6 - 164, engraved frontispiece, later full calf, gilt borders on covers, gilt spine, olive morocco label, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers; slight rubbing of front joint, but an attractive copy, with a curious inscription dated 1971. Joe Miller's Jests was first published in 1739, and there have probably been umpteen jillion later editions, along with facsimiles of the first edition offered for sale as a genuine first edition. Th work was compiled by Elijah Jenkins under the pseudonym of John Mottley. The comic actor and singer Josias Miller (1683/ - 1738) provided a name for the "jests," but very little of the material comes from him. OCLC locates only the copy in the BL. Seller Inventory # 9361

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Title: Joe Miller's Jests. Or, the Wit's Vade Mecum...

Publisher: London: Printed and Published by J. Barker Dramatic Repository Great Russell-Street Coven-Garden no date

Publication Date: 1807

Binding: Hardcover