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Ref NoShakespeare/1/4/479.42/791
Finding NumberShakespeare S 479.42 791
Shakespeare S 479.42
TitleShakespeare jest-books : reprints of the early and very rare jest-books supposed to have been used by Shakespeare ... / ed., with introduction and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt.
LevelItem
Date1864
DescriptionGeneral Note: With reproductions of original title-pages.
General Note: Half-title: Old English jest-books.
Tag 505: v. 1. A hundred merry talys, from the only known copy. Mery tales and quicke answeres, from the rare edition of 1567 -- v. 2. Merie tales of Skelton. Jests of Scogin. Sackfull of newes. Tarleton's jests. Merrie conceited jests of George Peele. Jacke of Dover -- v. 3. Merie tales of the mad men of Gotham. XII mery jests of the Wydow Edyth. Pasquils jests with Mother Bunches merriments. The pleasant conceits of Old Hobson. Cerayne conceyts and jeasts. Taylors wit and mirth. Conceits, clinches, flashes and whimzies.
Extent1
AuthorHazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913.
SubjectTag 600: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Sources.
Tag 650: Chapbooks.
Physical Description3 v. ; 19 cm.
Access StatusOpen
PublisherLondon : Willis & Sotheran,
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