01304nz 2200253n 4500 sh91000986 DLC 19910422112643.6 910307i| anannbab| |a ana ||| sh 91000986 DLC DLC Jestbooks Jest books Joke books Jokebooks g Books g Pamphlets g Popular literature Chapbooks Genre terms : a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging (jestbooks) Random House, 2nd ed. Web. 3 (jestbook; also called jokebook) Glaister, G.A. Glaister's glossary of the book, 2nd ed. (jest book: a collection of short humorous anecdotes or prose tales. Cuckolded husbands and erring priests figured in many, and some were based on actual events. Jest books remained common reading in Europe for several centuries, but their ephemeral nature has meant that few copies of earlier editions have survived) Here are entered collections of short humorous anecdotes or prose tales on topics such as cuckolded husbands, erring priests, or historical events that were popular in Europe primarily from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, as well as works about such books.