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Joe Miller's jests [electronic resource] : or, the wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most b...

Joe Miller's jests [electronic resource] : or, the wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most b...

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Joe Miller's jests [electronic resource] : 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, and Job Baker, the Kettle-Drummer.

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Joe Miller's jests [electronic resource] : 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, and Job Baker, the Kettle-Drummer.

Publisher

London : printed and sold by T. Read, in Dogwell-Court, White-Fryars, Fleet-Street, MDCCXXXIX. [1739]

Date

MDCCXXXIX. [1739]

Record Identifier

74VvNmQDxvKb

MMS ID

991012842479702626

Language

English

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Physical content

80p. ; 8°.

Publication information

Publisher

London : printed and sold by T. Read, in Dogwell-Court, White-Fryars, Fleet-Street, MDCCXXXIX. [1739]

Edition

The third edition.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

MDCCXXXIX. [1739]

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Access Conditions

Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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Joe Miller's jests [electronic resource] : 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...

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Notes

General note

Compiled by John Mottley.

Price from imprint: price One Shilling.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Citation / References Note

ESTC T63558.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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Record Identifier

74VvNmQDxvKb

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvNmQDxvKb

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MMS ID

991012842479702626