Rochester's jests, or, The quintessence of wit
Subtitle: containing a new collection of merry stories, repartees, jokes, puns, bulls, blunders, conundrums, the newest riddles, rebusses, smartest epigrams and epitaphs, the most admired songs, sung by Mr. Beard, Mrs. Pinto, Miss Wright, &c. and two original love letters : to which is added, wit upon windows, copied by a London rider : the whole being free from that obscenity, so frequent in most other books of this kind, is calculated to inspire mirth and good humour, without giving offence to the chastest ear
Contributors: Wilkie, J. (John), -1785, bookseller
Edition: The fourth edition.
Series: Eighteenth century collections online
Publisher: Printed for the proprietors, and sold by J. Wilkie, in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Published: 1770
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Wit and humor; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Rochester's jests; Quintessence of wit
Notes: Not in fact by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.

Price from imprint: Price only one shilling.

Signatures: [A]1 B-N⁶.

Page 144 misnumbered 344.

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