Josh Billings' Wit And Humor

by Josh Billings

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456 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2011

About the author

Josh Billings was the pen name of humorist born Henry Wheeler Shaw. He was perhaps the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the second half of the 19th century after Mark Twain, although his reputation has not fared so well with later generations.