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Wit and Wisdom, or the World's Jest-Book: Forming a Rich Banquet of Anecdote and Wit, Expressly Calculated "to Set the Table in a Roar"; Being, Also, an Agreeable Travelling Companion. The Whole Arranged by an Eminent Wit-Cracker, “a Fellow of Infinite Jest”.
de AN EMINENT WITCRACKER (pseud.), and George CRUICKSHANK, ill
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RARE THIRD EDITION
12mo, 576 pp., with several engraved half-page vignettes in the text and one full-paged. Frontispiece plate signed by William Chester Walker (1823-1872, fl.). Illustrations engraved probably after Cruickshank's sketches. Quarter gilt leather and marbled paper over pasteboard. Some early pencil annotations throughout. First leaf partially teared, with no loss. Rare. The first edition was printed in 1826, the second in 1828.
12mo, 576 pp., with several engraved half-page vignettes in the text and one full-paged. Frontispiece plate signed by William Chester Walker (1823-1872, fl.). Illustrations engraved probably after Cruickshank's sketches. Quarter gilt leather and marbled paper over pasteboard. Some early pencil annotations throughout. First leaf partially teared, with no loss. Rare. The first edition was printed in 1826, the second in 1828.
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- Wit and Wisdom, or the World's Jest-Book: Forming a Rich Banquet of Anecdote and Wit, Expressly Calculated "to Set the Table in a Roar"; Being, Also, an Agreeable Travelling Companion. The Whole Arranged by an Eminent Wit-Cracker, “a Fellow of Infinite Jest”.
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- AN EMINENT WITCRACKER (pseud.), and George CRUICKSHANK, ill
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- 1834
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- First Edition
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Gilt
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