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Cambridge Jokes

Cambridge Jokes

Cambridge Jokes

From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
A. J. Storey
July 2009
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9781108001229
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    James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820–1889) was a Shakespeare scholar, archaeologist and controversialist with wide antiquarian interests. In 1842, while Librarian of Jesus College, Cambridge, he published The Jokes of the Cambridge Coffee-Houses in the Seventeenth Century, which he described as a collection of early anecdotes 'selected from various Jest Books' which 'serve to show the state of this class of literature during that period'. In this volume it is paired with a pamphlet, The Fresher's Don'ts, written by 'A Sympathiser (B. A.)', (probably A. J. Storey) and first published in the 1890s. This edition was printed in 1913 by Redin and Co. of Trinity Street (with advertisements for Redin's and other Cambridge firms' goods and services at the beginning and the end). This light-hearted guide to student etiquette before the cataclysm of the First World War gives insights into a way of life which was about to vanish forever.

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    July 2009
    Paperback
    9781108001229
    104 pages
    216 × 140 × 6 mm
    0.14kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. The jokes of the Cambridge coffee-houses in the seventeenth century James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips
    • 2. The fresher's don'ts A. J. Storey.
      Contributors
    • James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips, A. J. Storey

    • Authors
    • James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
    • A. J. Storey