Courtly Quips & Gentry Gems, Volume I: The Best of Early English Wit, by Gayla Groom, Paperback Edition
$14.95
A new, true, and valuable addition to the amount of fun and wit loose in the world! Paperback version. Courtly Quips & Gentry Gems, Volume I is two hundred pages of authentic quips, jests, bon mots, anecdotes, maxims, etc., from the 1700s and 1800s in England. Many of these appear here for the first time in a modern digitized format — you no longer have to pore over photographs of moldy old pages, with s’s that look like f’s to read these gems of condensed wisdom and humour.
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A new, true, and valuable addition to the amount of fun and wit loose in the world! Paperback version. Courtly Quips & Gentry Gems, Volume I is two hundred pages of authentic quips, jests, bon mots, anecdotes, maxims, etc., from the 1700s and 1800s in England. Many of these appear here for the first time in a modern digitized format — you no longer have to pore over photographs of moldy old pages, with s’s that look like f’s to read these gems of condensed wisdom and humour.
And you no longer have to slog through a lot of bad rhymes and jokes that didn’t age well and are asking to be forgotten. At Gems Press, we save the parts worth saving and bring those to you, nicely formatted.
This 8.25″ x 8.25″ square volume of Courtly Quips & Gentry Gems, Volume I, includes a careful selection of the best bits, as determined by editor Gayla Groom, from five collections of English wit:
JOE MILLER’S JESTS (published 1744)
NEW FOUNDLING HOSPITAL FOR WIT (1768)
FUN FOR EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR (1810)
THE FLOWERS OF WIT (1825)
PUNCH: VOLUME 37 (1859)
Each is excellent in its way.
After hundreds of years, these long-lost words are fresh once again, resurrected to make their charming way in the modern world. Check out the sample to see what the first part of the book, selections from Joe Miller’s Jests, is like.