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Joe Miller's Complete Jest Book: Being a Collection of the Most Excellent Bon Mots, Brilliant Jests, and Striking Anecdotes in the English Language, Unabridged Edition, Two Volumes in One [Jr. With an introduction by Andrew G. Dickinson] on. Excerpt from Joe Miller's Complete Jest Book: Being a Collection of the Most Excellent Bon Mots, Brilliant Jests, and Striking Anecdotes, in the English Language Committee clerks if the house, and let each of 'em take a document, and they can all read together.

Man.2/5(1). Joe Miller's Complete Jest Book The title page proclaims this to be "a complete collection of the most excellent bon mots, brilliant jests, and Joe Millers complete jest book book anecdotes in the English language". There is an illustrated title page too, signed in manuscript by the man who bought this handy pocket-sized parcel of fun in the year of its publication.

The original Joe Miller (/) was a well-respected English actor, who played Shakespearean clowns among other characters. The year after his death, his friend John Mottley (), brought out a joke book named Joe Miller's Jests, or the Wit's Vade-Mecum, under the pseudonym Elijah three jokes in this slender pamphlet were actually.

Joe Miller's complete jest book: being a collection of the most excellent bon mots, brilliant jests, and striking anecdotes, in the English language by Miller, Joe, ; Mottley, John, Pages: Joe Miller s complete jest book: being a collection of the most excellent bon mots, brilliant jests, and striking anecdotes in the English language.

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Format: Hardback Number of pages: Publisher: Scott, Webster and Searle Title: Joe Miller's Complete Jest Book. Online Introduction to Joe Miller's Jest Book, more properly called. Mark Lemon's The Jest Book. Here are over seventeen hundred jokes from the 's. Compiled by Mark Lemon, the first editor of Punch magazine abouthis versiion,The Jest Book, was first published in and reprinted severalas was the habit, as proof of its success and proof of the long.

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Be the first. Similar Items. Full Title: Joe Miller's Complete Jest Book: Being a Collection of the Most Excellent Bon Mots, Brilliant Jests, and Striking Anecdotes, in the English LanguageA fair copy in fair condition.

Some pages are stained on the corner. The hard cover is used. Wear and page browning. Missing cover page. No date but would guess around the turn of the last century, Overall condition is VERY GOOD.

Grading scale is NEW, EXCELLENT, VERY FINE, FINE, VERY GOOD, GOOD, FAIR, and Rating: % positive. Joe Miller’s name was prefixed to them, and from that day to this, the man who never uttered a jest has been the reputed author of every jest, past and present, and doubtless through future ages will receive credit for all the good things that may be said by the grandchildren of those youngsters who now collect —— and our knees, and, in.

Jest books (or Jestbooks) are collections of jokes and humorous anecdotes in book form - a literary genre which reached its greatest importance in the early modern period.

Origins. The oldest surviving collection of jokes is the Byzantine Philogelos from the. JOE MILLER'S PICKWICK JEST-BOOK, Containing A Rich Fund of Wit & Humor. Author: [Dickens, Charles. - ] Title: JOE MILLER'S PICKWICK JEST-BOOK, Containing A Rich Fund of Wit & Humor Publication: Otley: Printed by William Walker, (n.

d.) Edition: Ca early Engel & Miller, p. for a similar work, "Pickwick Treasury of Wit, or, Joe Seller Rating: % positive. Joe is not the type of book I would normally read and if it was a movie I would rate it R, for language, some drug use, and adult themes.

It took me 2 days to read Joe, which tells you just what type of book it is. Joe was a page turner that was really hard to put down. I must say, I am so impressed by the writing in this book/5. In the well-known "Percy Anecdotes," in the numerous English Joe Millers, and other jest-books, a few of brother Jonathan's good things are to be found, in company with the rich and genial wit of John Bull, the pawky humour of the Scotch, and the exuberant mirth of Paddy; but it is believed that the present is the first attempt to present Brand: Library of Alexandria.

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Kindle Store Go Search Your Today's Deals Gift. About Joe Miller’s Jests. Joe Miller was a popular comic actor on the London stage from until his death in A year later, the publisher T.

Read enlisted a down-and-out writer named John Mottley to compile a book of jokes, and stuck Miller’s name onto it. In the well-known "Percy Anecdotes," in the numerous English Joe Millers, and other jest-books, a few of brother Jonathan's good things are to be found, in company with the rich and genial wit of John Bull, the pawky humour of the Scotch, and the exuberant mirth of Paddy; but it is believed that the present is the first attempt to present Brand: Library of Alexandria.

"The Book of Joe will make you laugh and cry. Tropper has a very readable style, and Joe is a character you can connect with, warts and all."--Associated Press.

From the Inside Flap. Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Conneticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that /5().Storytime with the Millers: $ Character Companion for the Miller Family Series: $ Colorful Characters Coloring Book: $ Wisdom and the Millers - Proverbs for Children: $ Working with Wisdom workbook: $ Prudence and the Millers: $ Prudence and Your Health workbook: $ School Days with the Millers: $