Conceits, clinches, flashes, and whimzies
Subtitle: newly studied, with some collections, but those never published before in this kinde
By: reprinted from the unique original, and edited, with introduction and notes by W. Carew Hazlitt
Series: Old English jest books
Publisher: Willis and Sotheran
Published: 1866
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: English wit and humor
Notes: Ascribed to Chamberlain by W.C. Hazlitt. "The 'Conceits' which has been frequently attributed to John Taylor, the Water-poet ... resembles the 'Jocabella' [1640] in sufficiently numerous points to support the conclusion that it was a first edition of Chamberlain's acknowledged jest-book."--Dict. nat. biog.

Originally published: London, 1639.

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