The nut-cracker
Subtitle: containing an agreeable variety of well-season'd jests, epigrams, epitaphs, &c. collected from the most sprightly wits of the present age : together with such instructions as will enable any man to tell a story with a good grace and crack a nut without losing the kernel : with other particulars equally useful and entertaining, and for which the gentle, kind, and courteous reader, will be pleased to look over the following pages ...
By: by Ferdinando Foot
Publisher: Printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun in St Paul's Church Yard, B. Collins in Salisbury; and sold by the booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland
Published: 1751
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Wit and humor; English Epigrams
Notes: Author from BM 75:244 and NCBEL II, 590.

Engraved frontispiece included in pagination.

"Select epigrams, &c." has separate pagination and signatures.

Roscoe, S. John Newbery A554(1).
Table of contents: title: The immigration problem; title: Technologies of self: nativism, cultural pluralism, and "America"; title: The migrant remitted; title: Imagination; title: Short stories of migration and the literary process in diaspora; title: The exhibition of subjectivity: migrant performances and parody acts; title: Bios and subjectivity: life stories in migration; title: The history of migration: autobiographical writing and historiography; title: Afterword: history in future anterior.