Joe Miller's jests: or, The wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, the most excellent bons mots, and most pleasant short stories in the English language; many of them transcribed from the mouth of the facetious gentleman whose name they bear. To which are added, choice collections of moral sentences, and of the most pointed and truly valuable epigrams in the British tongue; with the names of the authors to such as are known. Most humbly inscribed to those choice spirits of the age, His Majesty's poet-laureat, Mr. David Garrick, Mr. The. Cibber, Mr. Justice Bodens's horse, Tom Jones, the most impudent man living, the Rev. Mr. Henley, and Job Baker the kettle-drummer

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  • Joe Miller's jests: or, The wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, the most excellent bons mots, and most pleasant short stories in the English language; many of them transcribed from the mouth of the facetious gentleman whose name they bear. To which are added, choice collections of moral sentences, and of the most pointed and truly valuable epigrams in the British tongue; with the names of the authors to such as are known. Most humbly inscribed to those choice spirits of the age, His Majesty's poet-laureat, Mr. David Garrick, Mr. The. Cibber, Mr. Justice Bodens's horse, Tom Jones, the most impudent man living, the Rev. Mr. Henley, and Job Baker the kettle-drummer
  • Wits vade-mecum
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Imprint
London : Printed for S. Crowder, no. 12, in Paternoster-Row; W. Nicol, no. 51, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and J. Williams, no. 38, in Fleet-Street, [1769?] The fourteenth edition.; ..
Added name
Mottley, John, 1692-1750, editor.; Crowder, Stanley, -1798, bookseller.; Nicoll, W. (William), active 1761-1792.
Publication year
1769
ESTC No.
T63550
Grub Street ID
288808
Description
[4], 192 p. : 1 port. ; 12°.
Note
Compiled by John Mottley

According to Plomer, William Nicol published an edition of Joe Miller's Jests in 1769 (see: Plomer. H.R. A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775, p. 182); Frontispiece portrait on [A]1v

Signatures: [A]]2] B]8] C-R]6.
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Dating based on Book Trade Index