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Lemon, Mark . The jest book. The choicest anecdotes and sayings selected and arranged by Mark Lemon. London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1864. London: Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars. Vii, 361p. With two pages of publisher’s titles bound at the end. The title page has an illustration signed: “/ C. Keene/” [i.e Charles Keene] and C.H. Jeens/” [i.e. Charles Henry Jeens]. The half title page verso has the medallion device of Macmillan, with the words: “Golden Treasury Series” printed on its perimeter. In the publisher’s list at the end, this work is listed as number 7 in the Golden Treasury Series, “Bound in extra cloth, 4s. 6d.” Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. Binding: Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Binder’s ticket on upper pastedown: “/ Bought of/ Willis/ &/ Sotheran/ Booksellers/ & Bookbinders/ 42 [text indistinct]/” Green ungrained cloth. The lower cover is blocked in blind only with two fillets blocked on the borders, the outer thick the inner being thin. On the centre, is the same medallion as on the half title page verso, blocked in blind and in relief. The upper cover is blocked in gold. On the borders, two fillets are blocked in gold, the outer thick the inner thin. On the centre a medallion is blocked in gold, with two fillets forming its perimeter. Within it, we see the figure of a jester, seated on a bench. [This is a reproduction of the jester figure on the title page.] The spine is blocked in gold. At the head and at the tail, three fillets are blocked across the spine, one thick between two thin. Near the head, the words: “/ The/ jest book/ Mark Lemon./” are blocked in gold. Near the tail, the words: “/ Macmillan and Co./” are blocked in gold.
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