The celebrated Mrs. Pilkington's jests, or, The cabinet of wit and humour
Subtitle: to which is now first added, a great variety of bon mots, witticisms, and anecdotes of the inimitable Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin : the whole forming the most brilliant collection of quaint jokes, facetious puns, smart repartees, entertaining tales in verse and prose, epigrams, epitaphs, conundrums, &c, &c, now extant
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed for W. Nicoll, at the Paper Mill, in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Published: 1764
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Wit and humor
Other titles: Cabinet of wit and humour
Notes: First edition: 1759.

Signatures: [A]² B-K⁶ L⁴.

Title page printed in red and black.

English short title catalogue, entry T139264

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

Armorial bookplate: Thos. Gaisford.

Former owner's[?] inscription dated: Nov. 10, 1883.

Added engraved illustration bound in between pages 55 and 56; illegible penciled annotation on verso.

Bound in  half calf and marbled paper over boards; gilt tooled morocco spine label.