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Joe Miller's Jest Book by Mark Lemon

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Joe Miller's Jest Book
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Publisher: Hurst & Co.
ISBN/ASIN: 144378219X
ISBN-13: 9781443782197
Number of pages: 292

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An immense collection of the funniest jokes, quaint and laughable anecdotes, mirth provoking stories, brilliant witticisms, and queer sayings. Here are over seventeen hundred jokes from the 1800's. The Jest Book was first published in 1864 and reprinted several times.

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