"A Joker's Folio" is a collection of humor and sayings gathered from old newspapers, magazines, and illustrated papers of the mid-1800s. These jokes, advertisements, news items, sayings, quotes, anecdotes, reflect the lighter side of the Victorian era. The illustrations that appear within the book were taken from illustrated magazines and books such as Godey's Ladies book, The Illustrated London News, Harper's Weekly, Ballou's Drawing Room Companion, and Gleason's Pictorial. Whenever a quote, saying, anecdote, or joke could ...
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"A Joker's Folio" is a collection of humor and sayings gathered from old newspapers, magazines, and illustrated papers of the mid-1800s. These jokes, advertisements, news items, sayings, quotes, anecdotes, reflect the lighter side of the Victorian era. The illustrations that appear within the book were taken from illustrated magazines and books such as Godey's Ladies book, The Illustrated London News, Harper's Weekly, Ballou's Drawing Room Companion, and Gleason's Pictorial. Whenever a quote, saying, anecdote, or joke could be attributed it has been-many sources were not listed at the time of original publication.
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