Sir John Fielding's jests; or, new fun for the parlour and kitchen: being The Smartest, Wittiest, and Drollest Collection of Original Jests, Jokes, Repartees, &c. ever yet published. Containing, Particularly the following Facetious and Merry Variety, viz. The Newest Jests Lively Puns Most Poignant Repartees, Choice Bonmots, Strange Blunders, Humorous Adventures Pleasant Tales, New Conundrums, Puzzling Riddles, Queer Sayings, Comical Hobnobs, Laughable Anecdotes, Droll Stories, Best Rebusses, Most curious Epitaphs, Keen and Satyrical Epigrams, Approved Aenigmas, Irish Bulls, Witty Quibbles, Diverting Acrostics, Arch Waggaries, Temporary Squibs, Merry Poems, and Other Wittieisms, &c. &c. Among which are particularly noticed all those jokes that have passed upon various examinations at the Public office, before the late Sir John Fielding and other Magistrates , and which have occasioned even Justice itself to relax and give Countenance to a Smile. The whole Carefully transcribed from Original Man

People / Organizations

• John Fielding (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for the editor; and sold by Alex. Hogg, No. 16, Pater-Noster Row; T. Lewis, Great Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; and by all other Booksellers in Town and Country, [1781]

Publication year

1781

ESTC No.

T76248

Grub Street ID

298733

Description

iv,[i],14-84,73-84,97-104p.,plate ; 12°.

Note

The Justice of the Peace = Sir John Fielding

Text and register are continuous

Price from imprint: price only One Shilling Embellished with an Humourous Frontispiece, representing the Worshipful Author and his Companions in High Mirth and Jollity over a Flowing Bowl at the Bedford Arms.