PREFACE.

JOE MILLER'S JESTS.

WHOEVER READS THIS LITTLE BOOK OF JESTS

Transcriber's Notes

EDITED BY
FRANK BELLEW.

COPY OF THE TITLE-PAGE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION.

Joe Miller’s Jests; or, the Wit’s Vade-Mecum: being a collection of the most brilliant Jests; the politest Repartees; the most elegant Bon mots, and most pleasant short Stories in the English language. 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. London: Printed and sold by T. Read, in Dogwell Court, White’s Fryars, Fleet Street. mdccxxxix.

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OFFICE OF THE NORTHERN MAGAZINE,
39 Park Row, New-York.

1865.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
A. BELLEW,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.