Archie Armstrong's Banquet of jests
Subtitle: reprinted from the original editions together with Archy's dream printed in the yeare 1641.
Contributors: Jamieson, T. H. 1843-1876.; Armstrong, Archie, d. 1672.
Publisher: William Paterson
Published: 1872
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: English wit and humor.
Other titles: Banquet of jests; Archy's dream.
Notes: Preface signed: T.H. Jamieson.

Reprint from the 5th and 6th editions, with reproduction of the original title-pages: "A Banqvet of Jests. Or a Collection of Court Camp, Colledge, Citie, Country, Iests ... The sixth Ed., much enl. ... London, Printed for R. Royston, 1640," and "Archy's Dream, some times Iester to his Maiestie, but exiled the Court by Canterburies malice ... Printed in the yeare 1641."

"The earlier editions make no mention of the jester's name, and the use of it in the 5th and 6th editions may have been a mere trade device"--Preface.

"List of the editions": p. xxvii-xxix.

Includes index.