Compiled by John Mottley "Being a collection of the most brilliant jests; the politest repartees; the most elegant bons mots, and most pleasant short stories in the English language; first carefully collected in the company, and many of them transcribed from the mouth of the facetious gentleman, whose name they bear; and now set forth and published by his lamentable friend and former companion, Elijah Jenkins, esq.; most humbly inscribed to those choice-spirits of the age, Captain Bodens, Mr. Al
...exander Pope, Mr. Professor Lacy, Mr. Orator Henley, and Job Baker, the kettle-drummer"--T.p Book, cloth; front and back covers detached, spine missing 18
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