Paul Prys Jest Book Being A Choice Collection Of Comical Jests Droll Adventures Touches Of Humour

$900 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

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.In the twentieth century, Paul Pry was adopted by Thomas Burke as the

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