Shakespeare jest-books ; reprints of the early and very rare jest-books supposed to have been used by Shakespeare

Folger bibliographic ID: 6609
Folger call number: PR2953.W5 H3
Folger holdings ID: 6806

General notes

With reproductions of original title-pages Half-title: Old English jest-books The library also has several of these jest-books bound and catalogued separately

Contents

v. 1. A hundred mery talys, from the only known copy. Mery tales and quicke answeres, from the rare edition of 1567.--v. 2. Merie tales of Skelton. Jests of Scogin. Sackfull of newes. Tarleton's jests. Merrie conceited jests of George Peele. Jacke of Dover.--v. 3. Merie tales of the mad men of Gotham. XII mery jests of the Wydow Edyth. Pasquils jests with Mother Bunches merriments. The pleasant conceits of Old Hobson. Certayne conceyts and jeasts. Taylors wit and mirth. Conceits, clinches, flashes and whimzies

Item information about Folger PR2953.W5 H3

Autograph of Henrietta Hazlitt; copious manuscript notes by W.C. Hazlitt

Extended title: Shakespeare jest-books ; reprints of the early and very rare jest-books supposed to have been used by Shakespeare / Ed., with introduction and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Chapbooks

subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913