Joe Miller's jests: or, The wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brillant 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, Sir C.H. W. Knight of the Bath, and Joe Baker, the kettle-drummer

All titles

• Joe Miller's jests: or, The wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brillant 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, Sir C.H. W. Knight of the Bath, and Joe Baker, the kettle-drummer
• Wits vade-mecum

People / Organizations

• Thomas Read ("printed for")

Imprint

London : Printed for T. Read, in Dogwell Court, White-Fryers, Fleet-Street, MDCCXLVII. [1747] The ninth edition, with large additions.; ..

Added name

Mottley, John, 1692-1750, editor.; Read, T., active 1723-1758, bookseller.

Publication year

1747

ESTC No.

T188753

Grub Street ID

224498

Description

[4], 192 p. : 1 port. ; 8°.

Note

Compiled by John Mottley

Frontispiece portrait on [A]1v

Woodcut head-piece; woodcut factotum

"[Joe Miller] features in only three tales"-- ODNB

Signatures: [A]]2] B-N]8.

Uncontrolled note

Plate information from t63552 (eighth edition) - verify not ill