Nonsense verses, English

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• English wit and humor
• English poetry
• Nonsense verses

• English nonsense verses

• A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear
  • illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits (London: Macmillan and Co., 1876), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by Henry Holiday (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits (New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by Henry Holiday (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Laughable Lyrics: A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, Etc., by Edward Lear (illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org)
• More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc., by Edward Lear (illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org)
• Queery Leary Nonsense: A Lear Nonsense Book, by Edward Lear, ed. by Lady Constance Strachey (illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org)
• Rhyme? and Reason? (London: Macmillan and Co., 1883), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by A. B. Frost and Henry Holiday (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Rhyme? and Reason? (New York: Macmillan and Co., 1884), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by A. B. Frost and Henry Holiday (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Bones: His Anecdotes and Goaks (London: C. H. Clarke, ca. 1870), by G. W. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Choice Works of Thomas Hood (New York: Kiggins and Kellogg, 1854), by Thomas Hood
  • Volume I (Prose and Verse): page images at MOA
  • Volume II (Whimsicalities; Whims and Oddities): page images at MOA
  • Volume III (Poems; Hood's Own): page images at MOA
  • Volume IV (Up the Rhine): page images at MOA
• D'Ordel's Pantechnicon, by Mark Sykes and Edmund Sandars (multiple formats at archive.org)
• From Wisdom Court (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1893), by Henry Seton Merriman and Evelyn Beatrice Hall, illust. by E. Courboin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe, ed. by James Parton (Gutenberg text)
• The Jest Book: The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings (London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1864), ed. by Mark Lemon, contrib. by Joe Miller (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Joe Miller's Jest Book: An Immense Collection of the Funniest Jokes, Quaint and Laughable Anecdotes, Mirth Provoking Stories, Brilliant Witticisms, and Queer Sayings, As Told by the Original Joe Miller (Hurst and Co. American edition; appears to be an unauthorized Americanized version of Lemon's Jest Book), ed. by Mark Lemon, contrib. by Joe Miller (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Joe Miller's Jests: or, The Wits Vade-Mecum (originally published 1739), ed. by John Mottley, contrib. by Joe Miller (HTML with commentary at staggernation.com)
• Lancashire Humour and Pathos (Manchester, UK: Fred Johnson and Co., ca. 1911), by Langford Saunders, illust. by Sam Fitton (HTML at gerald-massey.org.uk)
• The Tatler (4 vols; New York: Hadley and Mathews, 1899), by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, ed. by George Atherton Aitken (searchable DjVu at Rutgers)
• Voces Populi (first series; London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1890), by F. Anstey, illust. by Bernard Partridge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Voces Populi (second series; London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892), by F. Anstey, illust. by Bernard Partridge (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, by Robert Greene (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• The Comic Annual, by Thomas Hood (full serial archives)
• Punch (partial serial archives)

• George Cruikshank's Omnibus (London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842), by George Cruikshank, ed. by Laman Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of the Seaside and the Country, by Hablot Knight Browne (PDF at Case Western)

• The Book of Humorous Verse, ed. by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg text)
• A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear
  • illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe, ed. by James Parton (Gutenberg text)
• Perverted Proverbs: A Manual of Immorals for the Many (New York: R. H. Russell, 1903), by Harry Graham (Gutenberg text)
• Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (New York: R. H. Russell, 1902), by Harry Graham
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Works of Thomas Hood, Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse (7 volumes; London: E. Moxon and Co., 1862-1863), by Thomas Hood, ed. by Tom Hood (page images at HathiTrust)

• Captains All (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1905), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Captains All (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Deep Waters, by W. W. Jacobs
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Light Freights (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1901), by W. W. Jacobs
  • Gutenberg multiple formats
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Many Cargoes (second edition, 1894), by W. W. Jacobs (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• More Cargoes (1897), by W. W. Jacobs (Gutenberg text)
• More Cargoes (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1898), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Odd Craft (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Odd Craft (1909), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Sea Urchins (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1898), by W. W. Jacobs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Sea Urchins (copyright edition; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1899), by W. W. Jacobs (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Short Cruises (New York: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, 1907), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont, by Robert Barr (Gutenberg text and audio)

• Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Proposals for Printing a Very Curious Discourse, in Two Volumes in Quarto, Intitled, [Pseudologia Politike]: or, A Treatise of the Art of Political Lying, by John Arbuthnot (HTML with commentary at ikanlundu.com)
• Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes, From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean (sixth edition, 4 volumes in 2; London: Printed for J. Morphew, 1720), by Mrs. Manley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Court Satires of the Restoration (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by John Harold Wilson (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling; Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot (Augustan reprint #140; texts originally published 1726 and 1727; Los Angeles: W. A. Clark Memorial Library, 1970), by Henry Carey, ed. by Samuel L. Macey (Gutenberg text, decorated HTML, and page images)
• A Satire Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1905), ed. by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)

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