Paul Pry's Jest Book: Being a choice collection of comical jests, droll adventures, touches of humour, excellent bon-mots, pleasing short stories, whimsical anecdotes, Irish bulls and blunders, with many other diverting pieces, original and select, inscribed to the sons and daughters of mirth.
London: Printed for Joseph Smith, 1828.
Frontispiece. 144 pp. 1 vols. Narrow 12mo. Green printed boards. Some rubbing, foot of spine repaired. Lacking front flyleaf, small loss to lower flyleaf. Very good OCLC: 10523299 (3 locations). Item #345519
Paul Pry was a popular farce of the mid 1820s, where the eponymous character leaves his umbrella behind as a pretext to return and eavesdrop on conversations.
Uncommon.
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