The Punster's Pocket-Book, or The Art of Punning Enlarged.

by Bernard Blackmantle, Esq by Charles M. Westmacott

$300 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

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. Item #15766 An amusing treatise on punning, with numerous rules, examples, and an earnest apologia for the form,

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