The Wits of Westminster
Subtitle: a new collection of jests, bon mots, humorous tales, brilliant repartees, epigrams, and other sallies of wit and humour, chiefly new and orriginal : being [a]n agreeable and lively companion for the parlour, guard room, post chaise, or wherever such a companion is most necessary and pleasing
By: by a member of the Calcannon Club, who here offers to the public, a book with more novelty, than has appeared since the time of Joe Millar's publication, in which he hopes to please every reader, except the very coarse, or over refined one
Publisher: Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, under the Royal Exchange
Published: 1772
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: English wit and humor; Early works to 1800; Wit and humor; Anecdotes; Aphorisms and apothegms
Notes: Frontispiece illustration signed: H. Gravelot invt., Isaac Taylor sculp.

English short title catalogue, entry N35998

Purchased in 2018 with the Endowment Fund for the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection.

Stamp with printed "T" pasted to inside rear cover.

Lacking letter "a" in 'an' in portion of title reading "being an agreeable and lively."

Bound in mid-19th half-calf and pebbled maroon cloth over stiff boards; gilt tooled red leather spine label.