Wit and humor -- History and criticism
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Books and Bookmen, by Ian Maclaren (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Language of Riddles: New Perspectives (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by W. J. Pepicello and Thomas A. Green (PDF at Ohio State)
- Vergleichende Rätselforschungen (3 parts (FF Communications #26-28), in German; Helsinki and Hamina: Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Kustantama, 1918-1920), by Antti Aarne
- The Literary Riddle in Italy in the Seventeenth Century (UC Publications in Modern Philology v40; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962), by Michele De Filippis (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Fictions of Satire (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ronald Paulson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry, by John Dryden (Gutenberg text)
- Four Essays on Gulliver's Travels (Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1958), by Arthur Ellicott Case (page images at HathiTrust)
- Swift (London: Macmillan and Co., 1882), by Leslie Stephen (Gutenberg text)
- Swift (New York: Harper and Bros., 1882), by Leslie Stephen
- Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Warren S. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Literary Quotation and Allusion in Lucian (New York: King's Crown Press, 1941), by Fred W. Householder (page images at HathiTrust)
- Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Warren S. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Warren S. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Wit and humor- Insults: A Practical Anthology of Scathing Remarks and Acid Portraits (New York: Greystone Press, c1941), by Max J. Herzberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Whimsey Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), ed. by Carolyn Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers: A New Collection of Humorous Stories and Anecdotes (3 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by William Patten
- Max and Maurice: A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899), by Wilhelm Busch, trans. by Charles T. Brooks (PDF page images at MSU)
- Human Passions Delineated in Above 120 Figures, Droll, Satyrical, and Humourous (1773), by Tim Bobbin, illust. by Thomas Sanders (page images at NIH)
- The Adventures of Mother Hubbard and Her Dog (Albany: R. H. Pease, ca. 1850), contrib. by Sarah Catherine Martin (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Every Body's Album (partial serial archives)
- Laughing: A Psychology of Humor (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Norman N. Holland (page images at Florida)
- Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious (New York: Moffat, Yard and company, 1916), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill (page images at HathiTrust)
- Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by Cynthia Willett and Julie A. Willett (HTML and PDF with commentary at umn.edu)
- The Circle of Anecdote and Wit: A Choice Collection of Pieces of Humour, including Many Never Before Printed (while credited to Colman on the title page, disowned by him; London: J. Williams, 1826), contrib. by George Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Democritus Ridens: Sive, Campus Recreationum Honestarum, Cum Exorcismo Melancholiae (in Latin, anonymously published but attributed to Lange; Augusburg: I. J. Loteri, 1754), by Johann Peter Lange
- The Kaleidoscope of Anecdotes and Aphorisms (London: R. Bentley, 1851), ed. by Catherine Sinclair
- Mélanges d'Histoire et de Litterature: Recueillis par M. de Vigneul-Marville (3 volumes in French; Rotterdam: E. Yvans, 1700-1702), by Bonaventure d' Argonne
- One Hundred Romances of Real Life (London: Whittaker and Co., 1843), ed. by Leigh Hunt, contrib. by Charlotte Smith and François Gayot de Pitaval (page images at Google)
- The Treasury of Wit, With Comic Engravings (London: Printed for T. Allman, 1836) (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers: A New Collection of Humorous Stories and Anecdotes (3 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by William Patten
- College Humor, 1920-1921: Being a Digest of Humor Appearing in the College Humorous Publications and The Collegiate World, the National College Magazine (Chicago: Collegate World Pub. Co., c1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Yale Fun: A Book of College Humor in Poetry, Pictures and Prose, Chosen With Loving Care From the Yale Record of the Past Eight Years, Conceived in the Sanctum, Founded on Foam, and Dedicated to the Humorous Faculty (Hartford: R. S. Peck, c1901), ed. by Wells S. Hastings, Brian Hooker, and Henry S. Ely (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit, by George Meredith (Gutenberg text)
- The Dramatic Values in Plautus (1918), by Wilton W. Blancké (Gutenberg text)
- Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell (Gutenberg text)
- Retractatio in the Ambrosian and Palatine Recensions of Plautus: A Study of the Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Stichus and Trinummus (Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1911), by Cornelia Catlin Coulter (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jonson's Moral Comedy (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1971), by Alan C. Dessen (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit, by George Meredith (Gutenberg text)
- Platitudes in the Making: Precepts and Advices for Gentlefolk (reprint; original published London: D.J. Rider; New York: M. Kennerly, 1911), by Holbrook Jackson (page images (with notes added by a reader) at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Thousand and One Epigrams, Selected From the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1911), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mother's Geese: A New Brood (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1906), by George Barr Baker, George C. Chappell, and Oliver Herford, illust. by T. Gilbert White (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- Routledge's Comic Reciter (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, ca. 1867), ed. by J. E. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tales of Humour (based on an 1890 edition, with credits and corrections added), ed. by Susan Rhoads (illustrated HTML at elfinspell.com)
- Later Adventures of Wee MacGreegor (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by J. J. Bell
- Wee Macgreegor (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1903), by J. J. Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Wee Macgreegor: A Scottish Story (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1903), by J. J. Bell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Wee Macgreegor Enlists (1916), by J. J. Bell (Gutenberg text)
- The World's Best Limericks (Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press, c1951), ed. by Peter Pauper Press, illust. by Richard Floethe (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Limeratomy: A Compedium of Universal Knowledge for the More Perfect Understanding of the Human Machine (New York: J. B. Pond, 1917), by Anthony Euwer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Limerick Lyrics: A Collection of Over 700 Choice Versifications, To Which is Added a Number of Short Verses, From Many Sources (New York: T. J. Carey and Co., 1904), ed. by Stanton Vaughn (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Smile on the Face of the Tiger: A Collection of Limericks (editorship uncertain, but attributed to Bolton; Boston: Bacon and Brown, 1909), contrib. by Charles Knowles Bolton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Book of Bubbles: A Contribution to the New York Fair in Aid of The Sanitary Commission (New York: Endicott and Co., 1864) (page images at Florida)
- A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear
- The Limerick Up to Date Book (San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., 1903), by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, illust. by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant and Addison Mizner (page images at HathiTrust)
- More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc., by Edward Lear (illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org)
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