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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
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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 Jenkens, 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.
Publication
London : Printed and sold by T. Read in Gowell-Court, White-Fryars, Fleet-Street, MDCCXXXIX [1739]
Manufacture
[London] : [H.J. Bellars], [1861?]
Physical Description
2 unnumbered pages, 70 pages ; 23 cm
Notes
Probably the lithographic facsimile by H.J. Bellars--cf. B.M.
Published pseudonymously. Compiled by John Mottley.
The publisher, T. Read, commissioned Mottley in 1739 to compile a collection of jests. The title has no historic justification, Miller being mentioned in only 3 anecdotes. See Dictionary of National Biography.
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Wits vade-mecum
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Language
English
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July 14, 2008
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