John Drewry was a prolific English writer and printer born in 1739 ... of riddles and “comical jests” entitled A New Riddle Book, or A Whetstone for Dull Wits. In addition to short poetic ...

John Winter Jones was a 19th-century English librarian and antiquarian ... and organizing the museum’s immense collection of books (a job that came with a book-buying budget of £10,000 ...

The book was a great success ... A New Booke of Merry Riddles, which was published in the mid-1600s. The puzzle reproduced below (updated into Modern English) comes from an edition of this second ...