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• Irony and pity, a book of tales (J. Lawren, 1926), by Paul Eldridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• De komedianten (in Dutch), by Louis Couperus (Gutenberg ebook)

• L'histoire du facétieux Scaramouche. (Chez François Chapoulaud ..., in the 18th century), by Angelo Costantini (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Philosophes et comédiennes ... (V. Lecou, 1855), by Arsène Houssaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comédies et comédiens: feuilletons (M. Lévy, 1866), by Pier Angelo Fiorentino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harry Lauder : at home and on tour (Greening & Co., 1907), by Harry Lauder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Profils de théâtre (Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1904), by Jules Claretie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• T︠S︡arʹ russkago smi︠e︡kha K.A. Varlamov (880-04 Petrograd : A.A. Evdokimov i Ko., 1916., 1916), by Ė. A. Stark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Observations sur l'art du comédien, et sur d'autres objets concernant cette profession en général...ouvrage detiné a de jeunes acteurs et actrices ([Cailleau], 1775), by Jean-Nicolas d' Hannetaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations sur l'art du comédien, : et sur d'autres objets concernant cette profession en général ; avec quelques extraits de différens auteurs & des remarques analogues au même sujet: ouvrage destiné a de jeune acteurs et actrices; (Chez la veuve Duchesne, 1775), by Jean-Nicolas d' Hannetaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Irony and pity, a book of tales (J. Lawren, 1926), by Paul Eldridge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Merely players (L. Lindely, 1890), by Harry Lindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merely players (L. Lindely, 1890), by Harry Lindley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Comedy queens of the Georgian era (A. Constable and company, limited, 1906), by John Fyvie, T. and A. Constable, and Archibald Constable & Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• All that was possible, being the record of a summer in the life of Mrs. Sibyl Crofts, comedian (Osgood, McIlvaine & co., 1895), by Howard Overing Sturgis and Sibyl Crofts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Comedy queens of the Georgian era (A. Constable and company, limited, 1906), by John Fyvie, T. and A. Constable, and Archibald Constable & Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fifty years of spoof. (John Lane, 1927), by Arthur Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thomas Doggett, deceased : a famous comedian. (Archibald Constable, 1908), by Theodore Andrea Cook and G. O. Nickalls (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathews' Theatrical budget, or, The actor's multum in parvo : containing all the whim, frolic, and eccentricity in his Mail coach adventures ... (Printed by and for Hodgson, 1823), by Charles Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)

• Streifzüge eines deutschen Comödianten : Erlebnisse aus dem kleinen Bühnenleben (J.A. Barth, 1878), by Alois Wohlgemuth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mémoires de Brandes, auteur et comédien allemand; avec une notice concernant cet acteur, et placée en tete des mémoires d'Iffland. (Ētienne Ledoux, 1823), by Johann Christian Brandes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of Charles Mathews, comedian (R. Bentley, 1839), by Mrs. Mathews and Charles Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• From sawdust to Windsor castle (S. Paul, 1922), by Whimsical Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From sawdust to Windsor Castle, by Whimsical Walker (Gutenberg ebook)

• Harry Lauder : at home and on tour (Greening & Co., 1907), by Harry Lauder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Vita di Pietro Gonnella, buffone. (Nella stamperia del pubblico, a spese di Giacomo Beniamino Kross, 1762) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notizie istoriche de' comici italiani che fiorirono intorno all'anno MDL, fino a' giorni presenti : opera ricercata, raccolta, ed estesa (Per li conzatti a S. Lorenzo, 1782), by Francesco Bartoli (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pepe : that's me and this is my story. (Columbia Pictures, 1960), by Cantinflas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• T︠S︡arʹ russkago smi︠e︡kha K.A. Varlamov (880-04 Petrograd : A.A. Evdokimov i Ko., 1916., 1916), by Ė. A. Stark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• I︠A︡ron (Kinopechatʹ, 1927), by Vadim Shershenevich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An American Comedy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1928), by Harold Lloyd and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)

• Comédiens français dans les cours d'Allemagne au dix-huitième siècle ([publisher not identified], 1901), by Jean Jacques Olivier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Italian actors of the renaissance (Coward-McCann, Inc., 1930), by Winifred Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La vie, les amours & actions de Scaramouche ([s.n.], 1695), by Angelo Costantini (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lettere d'Isabella Andreini padovana, comica gelosa, et academica intenta : nominata l'accesa. (Appresso Sebastiano Combi, 1612), by Isabella Andreini, Giambattista Marino, and Torquato Tasso (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettere della Isabella Andreini padoana, comica gelosa, & academica intenta, nominata l'Accesa : aggivntovi di nvovo li ragionamenti piaceuoli dell'istessa : vi sono due tauole vna delle lettere, & l'altra de' ragionamenti, che cell'opera si contengono. (Per gli heredi di Gio. Domenico Tarino, 1621), by Isabella Andreini, Giambattista Marino, Torquato Tasso, and Francesco Andreini (page images at HathiTrust)

• 50th anniversary of the first appearance on the stage of William Warren, Boston's favorite comedian. (J. Daly, 1882), by W. T. W. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)

• Comedias y comediantes. (Madrid., 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Opera House London one night only, Monday, Jan. 22, America's funniest woman, jolly, vivacious, frolicsome Fanny Rice. (s.n., 1900), by Ont.) London Opera House (London (page images at HathiTrust)

• 50 years of American comedy. (Exposition Press, 1951), by Bill Treadwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the life, travels and incidents of Col. Hugh Lindsay, the celebrated comedian, for a period of thirty-seven years, (O. P. Knauss, 1883), by Hugh Lindsay (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 with commentary at umn.edu)

• The Good Companions, by J. B. Priestley (multiple formats with commentary at Standard Ebooks)
• Tales of the town (Duffield and Company, 1911), by Charles Belmont Davis, David Robinson, and Duffield & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• I wasn't born yesterday : an anonymous autobiography (The Macaulay Company, 1935), by Allen Rivkin and Leonard Spigelgass (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bijou-de-ceinture, ou, Le jeune homme qui porte robe, se poudre et se farde : roman. (E. Flammarion, 1925), by G. Soulié de Morant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• No Great Magic (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1963), by Fritz Leiber (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• A Maid of Many Moods (Toronto: Copp Clark Co., 1902), by Virna Sheard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Without the Limelight: Theatrical Life As It Is (London: Chatto and Windus, 1900), by George R. Sims (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Actor-Manager (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Comedienne (c1920), by Władyslaw Stanisław Reymont, trans. by Edmund Obecny (Gutenberg text)
• Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1917), by David Graham Phillips
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Indiana
  • both volumes (but no illustrations): Gutenberg text
• Tales of the town (Duffield and Company, 1911), by Charles Belmont Davis, David Robinson, and Duffield & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• He who passed (H. Frowde, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A mummer's wife. (W. Scott, 1893), by George Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The seventh shot : A detective story, by Herman Landon (Gutenberg ebook)
• The black drama, by Manly Wade Wellman, illust. by Margaret Brundage and Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg ebook)
• The leading lady, by Geraldine Bonner (Gutenberg ebook)
• Troubled star, by George O. Smith, illust. by Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Old Card, by Roland Pertwee (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le beau Laurence (in French), by George Sand (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wayfaring Men: A Novel, by Edna Lyall (Gutenberg ebook)
• Infatuation, by Lloyd Osbourne, illust. by Karl Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Actor-Husband: A true story of American stage life (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Fair Planet, by Evelyn E. Smith, illust. by Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Her first appearance (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, n.d.), by Richard Harding Davis, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson and Edmund M Ashe (page images at Florida)

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