The Jest Book

Macmillan and Co, 1864. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1864. No Edition Remarks. 361 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges. Moderate cracking to gutters and hinges causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Minor crack to front pastedown. Boards have minor corner bumping and… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Sever and Francis, 1865. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Original green cloth boards with gilt illustration stamped on front cover. T.e.g. viii, 389 p.p., with [8] p.p. ads. Frontispiece vignette by Charles Keene. Features over one thousand humorous sayings, anecdotes, and epigrams. Name plate of Frank M. Hosier on front pastedown, and bookplate of C.B. Farrar on verso… Read more about this item

Macmillan, London 1873, no edition stated, hb, 12mo, pictorial title page, in green cloth gilt, a bit worn, inner hinges cracked, else good plus. Hardcover.

Sever and Francis, 1865. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. good plus: head & heel worn. Jest books are collections of jokes and humorous anecdotes in book form - a literary genre which reached its greatest importance in the early modern period. The jests are numbered I-MDCCXL plus a topical arrangement and complete index.

London: Macmillan and Co.. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1879. Early Printing. Leather. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on two burgundy labels in two compartments, gilt tooling in remainder, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Illustrated with tissue-protected engraving on title page. . Armorial … Read more about this item

London: MacMillan, 1864. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback in original cloth viii + 361pp., index, A Victorian book of jokes. Stunning copy in brilliant emerald boards with bright gilt vignette to upper board & bright gilt titles to the spine. Sharp corners; the best copy you will ever find. PHOTO available

Hardbound. Very Good. The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings. Selected and Arranged by Mark Lemon. 12mo. Early edition. Vignette title. London & Cambridge (Macmillan) 1865. A very good copy, top edge gilt, with pictorial title page.

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Paperback / softback. New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New.

New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. Hardcover. New. 9x6x1.