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Title: Jestiana, or, Joke Upon Joke: Comprising Rich Gems of Humour and Smart Bon Mots Extracted from the Records of Momus Interspersed with Original and Eccentric Anecdotes
Description: London, O. Hodgson, c1830. Cloth. A very scarce little book of humour, featuring a charming hand-coloured frontispiece. Pocket sized volume containing humorous anecdotes and witticisms. A very scarce little book of jokes dated from a copy catalogued at the British Library, St Pancras on WorldCat. Illustrated with a lovely hand-coloured frontispiece. In the original publisher's full cloth binding, gilt to edges. Externally smart with minor shelf wear, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine. Back strip laid down. Previous owner's neat inscription to verso front free endpaper, 'An Irish Sportsman Patrick, you fool, what makes you stale so softly after that Rabbit, when your gun has no lock on it. - Hush! Hush! my darling, the Rabbit don't know that.' Internally, firmly bound. Pages very clean. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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