Limericks
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Broader terms:Narrower term:Used for:- Limerick (poetry)
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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)
- The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women, Illustrated by As Many Engravings: Exhibiting Their Principal Eccentricities and Amusements (1820) (illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Humorous poetry- 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)
- Dreams & Dust, by Don Marquis (Gutenberg text)
- Noah an' Jonah an' Cap'n John Smith: A Book of Humorous Verse (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1922), by Don Marquis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sonnets to a Red-Haired Lady (By a Gentleman With a Blue Beard); and, Famous Love Affairs (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by Don Marquis, illust. by Stuart Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Book of Humorous Verse, ed. by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg text)
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe, ed. by James Parton (Gutenberg text)
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe (13th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1881), ed. by James Parton
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe (13th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1884), ed. by James Parton
- The Book of Humorous Verse, ed. by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg text)
- Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen, by G. K. Chesterton (illustrated HTML at Notre Dame)
- Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen (London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1900), by G. K. Chesterton
- 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
- Absurd Ditties (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1903), by G. E. Farrow, illust. by John Hassall
- A Moral Alphabet (London: E. Arnold, 1899), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)
- Wit and Humour, Selected From The English Poets; With an Illustrative Essay, and Critical Comments (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1846), ed. by Leigh Hunt
- 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)
- A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe, ed. by James Parton (Gutenberg text)
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe (13th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1881), ed. by James Parton
- The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, From Chaucer to Saxe (13th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1884), ed. by James Parton
- A Nonsense Anthology, ed. by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg text)
- Rhymes Without Reason (New York: Hurd and Houghton, ca. 1864) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The "Willie Ballads", With Other Limericks and Nonsense Rhymes (Columbia, SC: R. L. Bryan Co., 1904), ed. by F. N. Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (London; Duckworth, n.d.), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)
- Father Gander's Melodies for Mother Goose's Grandchildren (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, c1904), by Adelaide F. Samuels, illust. by Lillian Trask Harlow (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- The Purple Cow! (San Francisco: W. Doxey, ca. 1899), by Gelett Burgess (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Little Sarah (Boston: W. J. Reynolds and Co., ca. 1851) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear
- The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits (London: Macmillan and Co., 1876), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by Henry Holiday
- The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits (New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by Henry Holiday (page images at Florida)
- The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits (New York: Macmillan, 1902), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by Henry Holiday
- The Hunting of the Snark, and Other Poems and Verses (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1903), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by Peter Newell
- 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)
- More Peers (London: Duckworth and Co., n.d.), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood) (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- 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)
- Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen, by G. K. Chesterton (illustrated HTML at Notre Dame)
- Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen (London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1900), by G. K. Chesterton
- More Beasts (For Worse Children) (London; Duckworth and Co., n.d.), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)
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