The Complete London Jester, or, wit's companion: Containing all the fun and all the humour, all the learning and all the judgment, which have lately slowed from the two universities, from the two theatres, from White's Chocolate-house, from the Bedford Coffee-house; or, from the spouting clubs, and choice spirits clubs in London and Westminster. Including all the fashionable jests, epigrams, merry tales, humorous jokes, bon mots, conundrums, Irish bulls, comical humbugs, droll narrations, smart repartees, new adventures, funny epitaphs, and witticisms. Which will expel care, drown grief, banish the spleen, improve the wit, create mirth, entertain company, and give the reader a light heart, and a chearful countenance. The whole teaching the agreable art of story-telling, and furnishing pieces of wit, for the amusement and improvement of both sexes. The sixth edition. To which is added a genteel collection of the various toasts, sentiments, and Hob-Nobs, now in fashion

People / Organizations

• Thomas Lowndes ("printed for")

Imprint

London : Printed for T. Lowndes in Fleet-street, 1771.

Publication year

1771

ESTC No.

T226754

Grub Street ID

248210

Description

144 p. : ill. ; 12°.

Note

Titlepage in red and black

Price in square brackets: (Price One Shilling.)

Uncontrolled note

Frontis. = ill. Red and black tp. from Lu