Flowers of Wit; or the Laughing Philosopher and Budget of Comicalities
Baltimore: C. V. Nickerson, 1832. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1832. Small octavo, pictorial paper covered boards, ca. 1870s leather spine and probably that vintage endpapers, too, 108 pp, with a number of in-text woodcuts and one full page woodcut of a black man sawing entitled 'Fate of Genius'. Some toning, foxing and dampstaining to text, boards quite rubbed, a sold fair copy overall, rare on the market, early American humor, with humorous anecdotes, jokes and much scorn heaped on the Irish. Fair. Item #H4873
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