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John Harcourt’s Original Jests Illustrated by George Cruikshank 1827. Cruikshank, George and John Harcourt. Front wrapper title: “The Shilling Comic Annual a Collection of All the Short, Good Things, which Have, Might, Could, Would, Should or Ought to Have Been Said by the Wise & Witty of All Ages and Countries for the Expansion of the Understanding London: Published by William Cruikshank One Shilling.” Titlepage title: John Harcourt’s Original Jests. London: Cowie and Strange, 69, Paternoster Row, and 24, Fetter Lane, 1827. First edition. 12mo. 13.8 cm. 54 pages. On the back of the frontispiece is W. Sears, printer, 11, Budge Row, Walbrook. The stiff gray front paper wrapper has come unsewn, but the front cover of the wrapper, illustrated with George Cruikshank’s woodcut, “Expansion of the Understanding.” The initial blank and George Cruikshank’s etched frontispiece, “To the Comic Annual,” are still together. Back wrapper lists Goldsmith’s British Classics. Signed and dated on the initial blank by “E Church 1847.” Cohn 383.
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