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The Punster's Pocket-Book, or The Art of Punning Enlarged. By Bernard Blackmantle, Esq

The Punster's Pocket-Book, or The Art of Punning Enlarged. By Bernard Blackmantle, Esq

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The Punster's Pocket-Book, or The Art of Punning Enlarged. By Bernard Blackmantle, Esq

by [Westmacott, Charles M.]

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London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1826. First Edition. With numerous illustrations by Robert Cruikshank. 198 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth, printed label on upper cover, rebacked, with new endpapers and spine relaid, else fine, from the celebrated library of Lucius Wilmerding, with his Rockwell Kent bookplate on front paste-down. First Edition. With numerous illustrations by Robert Cruikshank. 198 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. On Puns, By the Author of The English Spy. An amusing treatise on punning, with numerous rules, examples, and an earnest apologia for the form, with samples drawn from antiquity and elsewhere. Westmacott was the author of The English Spy, which Robert Cruikshank (George's brother) also illustrated.

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Title
The Punster's Pocket-Book, or The Art of Punning Enlarged. By Bernard Blackmantle, Esq
Author
[Westmacott, Charles M.]
Format/Binding
With numerous illustrations by Robert Cruikshank. 198 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Book Condition
New Original red cloth, printed label on upper cover, rebacked, with new endpapers and spine relaid, else fine, from the celebrated
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First Edition
Publisher
Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1826
Keywords
British | British
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