Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century
by Ashton, John
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly 1883. (Hardcover) 454pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Dark green and black stamped cloth with gilt cover decoration and gilt lettering to the spine. Frontispiece, illustrations, appendix, musical notation. The spine is worn and creased at the top and bottom, the front cover has been cut along the spine in places, and page 353 has some small puncture marks near the top of the page. "Our forefathers delighted to call their country 'Merrie England;' and so, in very truth, it was. All sorts of sports and pastimes, such as no other nation can show, were then in use; and even the elders, in their hours of relaxation, were wont to exchange a merry jest with one another" - from the Preface. Book about Religious Satire. Time Period 17th Century. (Humor, Ballads, Jokes, Political Satire, Satire, Wit).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153297
- Title
- Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century
- Author
- Ashton, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Humor, Ballads, Jokes, Political Satire, Satire, Wit
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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