Wits museum, or, The new London jester :

Bibliographic Details
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Edition:	A new edition.
Subjects:	English wit and humor.

The youthful jester, or Repository of wit and ionocent [as printed] amusement : Containing: moral and humourous tales--merry jests--laughable anecdotes--and smart repartees. : The whole being as innocent as it is entertaining.
by: Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 1734-1793

Mirth's Museum, or, The Humorous Jester : Containing select and original Jests, bon mots, repartees, droll stories, and laughable gulls, both English and Irish.

The compleat universal jester: or, Pocket companion for the wits : Being a choice collection of merry conceits, facetious droileries, humorous waggeries, smart repartees, pleasant jokes, bon mots, comic stories, notable puns, witty quibbles, and ridiculous bulls. To which are added, a great number of out-o'th'-way conundrums, diverting rebusses, poignant epigrams, odd and uncommon epitaphs, &c. &c. The whole calculated to divert and promote inoffensive mirth, and good company. Containing more in number, and greater variety, than any book of the kind yet published. By Ferdinando Killigrew, Esq; the world's a jest.
by: Killigrew, Ferdinando

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.
Published: (1771)

The triumph of wit : a study of Victorian comic theory /
by: Martin, Robert Bernard
Published: (1974)

The camp jester, or, Amusement for the mess.
Published: (1864)

Jewish jesters : a study in American popular comedy /
by: Berger, Arthur Asa, 1933-
Published: (2001)

Funny stories: or The American jester : being a companion for a merry good fellow. Containing choice stories, funny anecdotes, wise sayings, smart repartees, &c. &c. &c. : [One line of quotation].

Funny stories: or, The American jester : being a companion for a merry good fellow. Containing, choice stories, funny anecdotes, wise sayings, smart repartees, &c. &c. &c. "I love funn!" Falstaff.
Published: (1795)

London drollery, or, The wits academy : being a select collection of the newest songs, lampoons, and airs alamode : with several other most ingenious peices [as printed] of railery, never before published /
by: Hicks, William, active 1671

London drollery, or, The wits academy : being a select collection of the newest songs, lampoons, and airs alamode : with several other most ingenious peices [sic] of railery, never before published /
by: Hicks, William, fl. 1671
Published: (1673)

Ready wit /
by: MacHale, Des
Published: (2004)

The Sprightly jester; or, Coffee-house companion : A collection of smart jests, for the wits of all classes, jovial, sprightly, or the loungers. To be read by the cit over his pipe, young buck with molly at the bar, or The jessamy sipping his capilaire; with a frontispiece of a coffee-house scene near the Royal Exchange, or rare news.
Published: (1800)

Wit and humor in the English romantic period /
by: Hilton, Loyd Harold
Published: (1961)

Wit and mirth : chargeably collected out of tauernes, ordinaries, innes, bowling greenes, and allyes, alehouses, tobacco shops, highwaies, and water-passages : made vp, and fashioned into clinches, bulls, quirkes, yerkes, quips, and ierkes : apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled at the request of old Iohn Garrets ghost /
by: Taylor, John, 1580-1653
Published: (1628)

Shakespeare's jests, or The jubilee jester : Being the most curious collection of funny jokes, merry stories, droll adventures, frolicksome tales, witty quibbles, youthful pranks, smart repartees, double entendres wise sayings, witty jests, anecdote waggeries whims, humbugs puns, bon mots and laughable tricks. That ever were offered to the public in this kingdom. To which are added a curious collection of conundrums, clever epigrams, amorous poems, the esteemed jubilee and vauxhall songs, sung this season. Humorous epitaphs, facetious dialogues, catches glees, &c. And a new collection of the most favourite toasts, sentiments, and hob nobs now the ton. The whole comprising the witty sayings, quick repartees of the several shinging wits of the present age. Which will expel cars, drown grief, create mirth, and give the reader a light heart and a chearful countenance, and teaching the agreeable art of story telling to both sexes.
Published: (1790)

Bought wit is best. Or, Tom Longs iourney to London, to buy wit
by: W. S., fl. 1634
Published: (1634)

English wits /
by: Russell, Leonard, 1906-
Published: (1953)

Funny stories, or, The American jester : being a companion for a merry good fellow : containing stories, funny anecdotes, wise sayings, smart repartee, etc.
Published: (1814)

Tom gay's comical Jester, or The wit's merry medley : Being a new and most beautiful collection of brilliant jests, funny jokes, merry stories, humorous adventures, pleasant tales, smart repartees, witty quibbles, & Irish bulls, &c. &c. To which is added, a curious collection of new conundrums, rebusses and riddles, sharp epigrams, droll epitaphs, amorous, poems, songs, fables, &c. The whole being entirely freed from that dulness which infects most other jest books-and is calculated to kill care, banish sorrow, promote mirth, crack the sides, choar the heart, and prove an everlasting gordial for low spirits.
by: Gay, Tom
Published: (1770)

Tom gay's comical Jester; or The wit's merry medley : Being a new and most beautiful collection of brilliant jests, funny jokes, merry stories, amorous adventures, pleasant tales, smart repartees, witty quibbles, Irish bulls, &c. &c. To which is added, a curious collection of new conundrums, rebusses, and riddles, sharp epigrams, droll epitaphs, amorous poems, songs, fables, &c. The whole being entirely freed from that dulness which infests most other jest-books-and is calculated to kill care, banish sorrow, promote mirth, crack the sides, chear the heart, and prove an everlasting cordial of low spirits.
by: Gay, Tom
Published: (1763)

Feast of merriment. A new American jester : Being a most curious collection of witty jests--merry stories--smart repartees-- droll advertures--funny jokes--wise sayings--anecdotes--waggeries-- whims--puns-- bon mots-- and laughable tricks, many of which were never before published. ... /

Wit and humour, selected from the English poets : with an illustrative essay, and critical comments /
by: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
Published: (1846)

England's merry jester: or, Court, city and country jests : new, and suitable to the humours of the times; witty and familiar, for the encrease of merriment, and improvement of friendly conversation, as they are used among the wits of the age. To which are added, as a second part, Bulls, banters, quibbles, repartees, pleasant stories, and poems: the qualifications of an expert town-wheedle; with the art and mystery of wheedling. All profitable, pleasant, and delightful. The like never before published. Done by a lover of merriment.
by: J. S.
Published: (1694)

Wit and mirth, an antidote against melancholy : compounded of ingenious and witty ballads, songs, and catches, and other pleasant and merry poems.
by: Playford, Henry, b. 1657
Published: (1682)

Wit and mirth, an antidote against melancholy : compounded of ingenious and witty ballads, songs, and catches, and other pleasant and merry poems.
by: Playford, Henry, 1657-

The fine art of political wit ; being a lively guide to the artistic invective, elegant epithet, and polished impromptus as well as the gallant and graceful worldly wit of various British & American politicians from the 18th century through our own days of grace. A handbook for piercing the poltical epidermis of opponents.
by: Harris, Leon A.
Published: (1964)

Wits museum, or the new London jester : a collection by the choice spirits of the present age.

Lives of the wits.
by: Pearson, Hesketh, 1887-1964
Published: (1962)

A book of famous wits /
by: Jerrold, Walter, 1865-1929
Published: (1971)

A satyr against wit.
by: Blackmore, Richard, Sir, 1654-1729

A satyr against wit
by: Blackmore, Richard, Sir, d. 1729
Published: (1700)

The wits academy, or, The muses delight : consisting of merry dialogues upon various occasions composed of mirth, wit, and eloquence, for a help to discourse to such as have had but small converse with the critical sort of people, which live in this censorious age : as also, divers sorts of letters upon several occasions both merry and jocose, helpful for the inexpert to imitate, and pleasant to those of better judgement, at their own leisure to peruse : with a perfect collection of all the newest and best songs, and catches, that are, and have been lately in request at court, and both the theatres.
by: W. P.
Published: (1677)

The wits academy, or, The muses delight : consisting of merry dialogues upon various occasions composed of mirth, wit, and eloquence, for a help to discourse to such as have had but small converse with the critical sort of people, which live in this censorious age : as also, divers sorts of letters upon several occasions both merry and jocose, helpful for the inexpert to imitate, and pleasant to those of better judgement, at their own leisure to peruse : with a perfect collection of all the newest and best songs, and catches, that are, and have been lately in request at court, and both the theatres.
by: W. P.

Tom Brown's complete jester : Or, the wit's merry companion. Being a most curious collection of excellent jests, keen repartees, pleasant stories, funny jokes, bon mots, smart waggeries, humourous quibbles, comical adventures, Irish bulls, and entertaining humbugs. To which are added, a choice collection of conundrums, entire new and beautiful rebusses, and riddles; biting epigrams, droll epitaphs, merry songs, amorous pastorals, comic tales, fables, &c. &c. &c. freed from those insipid thread-bare jests, which are in many other compositions of this kind; most of these being entirely new, and never yet appeared in any Jester.
Published: (1760)

The Amorous jester, or, The wit's companion : Being a banquet of fun, mirth, glee and gallantry; to which is added, witty stories, songs, poems, epigrams, riddles, toasts, sentiments, &c.
Published: (1785)

Wits museum, or, The new London jester : a collection by the choice spirits of the present age.

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