[f. JEST sb. + BOOK sb.] A book of jests or amusing stories.
1750. H. Walpole, Lett. (1845), II. 367. You will think my letters are absolute jest-and-story books.
1781. Cowper, Truth, 307. The Scripture was his jest-book, whence he drew Bons-mots to gall the Christian and the Jew.
1876. N. Amer. Rev., CXXIII. July, 58. Various collections of jest-books, as those containing the jokes of Bertaldo and Gonnella.
