First edition.
JEST BOOKS.—Joe Miller's Jests: or, the Wits Vade-Mecum. Being A Collection of the moſt Brilliant Jests; . . . Firſt carefully collected in the Company, and many of them tranſcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman, whoſe Name they bear; and now ſet forth and publiſhed by his lamentable Friend and former Companion, Elijah Jenkins, Eſq; Moſt Humbly Inscribed To thoſe Choice-Spirits of the Age, Captain Bodens, Mr. Alexander Pope, Mr. Profeſſor Lacy, Mr. Orator Henley, and Job Baker, the Kettle-Drummer. The Second Edition. London: Printed and Sold by T. Read, . . . M dcc xxxix. . . . 8vo, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Rivière.
JEST BOOKS.—Joe Miller's Jests, Or Wit's Merry Companion, containing A selection of brilliant jests, smart repartees, and short stories, calculated to promote mirth and good humour, and furnishing Entertainment for the Winter Evenings. The whole teaching the agreeable art of story telling. The seventh edition. London: printed by Sabine and Son, . . . Price Six-Pence. [1745] 12mo, olive straight-grain morocco, Janseniste, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
Frontispiece with the legend:
"Wit a thousand different Shapes it bears,
And Comedy in a thousand forms Appears."
JEST BOOKS.—Joe Miller's Jests: or, the Wits Vade-mecum, being A Collection of the moſt Brilliant Jests, the moſt excellent Bon Mots, and moſt pleaſant ſhort Stories in the Engliſh Language; . . . Moſt humbly Inscribed To thoſe Choice Spirits of the Age, His Majeſty's Poet-Laureat, Mr. David Garrick, Mr. The. Cibber, Mr. Juſtice Boden's Horſe, Tom Jones, the moſt Impudent Man living, the Rev. Mr. Henley, and Job Baker the Kettle-Drummer. The fourteenth edition. London: Printed for S. Crowder, . . . W. Nicol, . . . and J. Williams, . . . (Price One Shilling and Sixpence.) [1771] 12mo, green straight-grain morocco, Janseniste, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
Frontispiece.
JEST BOOKS.—Joe Miller's Jests; or the Wits Vade-mecum: Being a Collection of the moſt brilliant Jeſts, curious Bon-Mots, and the moſt pleasing ſhort Stories in the Engliſh Language, . . . To which is added A Choice Collection of Moral Sentences; also a selection of curious epigrams. Humbly inscribed to the choice spirits of the age. A new edition. London: printed for W. Lane, . . . [Price one shilling and six-pence.] [n. d.] 12mo, red straight-grain morocco, Janseniste, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
Frontispiece of five men seated at a dining-table.
JEST BOOKS.—Old Joe Miller: being a complete and correct copy from the Best Edition of his Celebrated Jests; and also including all the good things in above fifty jest-books published from the year 1558 to the present time. By the Editor of New Joe Miller, or The Tickler. . . . London, Printed by Wilson & Co. . . . For J. Ridgway, . . . 1800. 12mo, blue straight-grain morocco, Janseniste, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.