The Universal Jester - Or, a Pocket Companion for the Wits. Being a Choice Collection of Merry Conceits, ... to Which Are Added, Mr. Puzzlewit's Gimcracks; ... Humbly Inscribed to the Choice Spirits of the Age. by Ferdinando Killigrew, Esq. (Paperback)

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT194937Titlepage in red and black. Pp. 151-152 repeated in pagination. Horizontal chain lines.London: printed for R. Whitworth; J. Warcus; R. Richards; W. Mynors; and W. Heard, 1754. iv,154 i.e.156]p., plate; 8

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Imprint:	Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2010
First published:	May 2010
Authors:	Ferdinando Killigrew
Dimensions:	189 x 246 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	170
ISBN-13:	978-1-170-66220-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Promotions
LSN:	1-170-66220-X
Barcode:	9781170662205

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