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Joe Miller's jests, or, The wits vade-mecum: being a collection of the most brilliant jests, the most excellent bons mots, and most pleasant short stories in the English language : many of them transcribed from the mouth of the facetious gentleman whose name they bear : to which are added choice collections of moral sentences and of the most pointed and truly valuable epigrams in the British tongue : with the name of the authors to such as are known ...
The earliest high-confidence catalog date in this author overview is 1745.
