family Jo: Miller
Subtitle: a drawing-room jest book : Jo: Miller, -- a biography.
Contributors: Miller, Joe, 1684-1738; Mottley, John, 1692-1750; Wills, William Henry, 1810-1880; Linton, W. J. 1812-1897; Dalziel, George, 1815-1902; Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874; Vizetelly, Henry, 1820-1894; Archer, John Wykeham, 1808-1864; Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883; Vizetelly Brothers & Co.; Bone & Son
Publisher: Wm. S. Orr & Co.
Published: 1848
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Miller, Joe, -- 1684-1738.; Miller family -- Humor.; English wit and humor.
Other titles: Family Jo Miller :
Notes: Added wood-engraved illustrated t.p.

Preliminary wood-engraved plate and added t.p. printed on yellow-beige background.   Plate with signature: "W. J. Linton".  T.p. with signatures: "G. Dalziel" and "KM" [i.e. Kenny Meadows].

T.p. and text printed within black rule borders.  The corners of most of these borders include small wood-engraved caricatures with signature: "RD" [i.e. Richard Doyle].

Includes small wood-engraved decorative or illustrated initials.

P. xxx misnumbered "xx".

Includes "Jo: Miller, a biography": p. [i]-lvi.

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are signed: "J. W. A" or "J. W. Archer" [i.e. John Wykeham Archer?] and "H. Vizetelly Sc.".

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-8] at end include those for "Jones's Diamond Classics".

Originally compiled in 1739 by John Mottley.  Editing and biography in this edition by William Henry Wills.  Cf. RLIN.

Includes bibliographical references.

MASS copy: Bound in red vertical rib-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.  Upper cover blocked in gold with illustration replicated from the text.  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Bone & Son,  76, Fleet Street,  London.".