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Bluebeard : a musical fantasy (Harper and Brothers, 1914), by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, John Orlando Parry, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Hand-made fables (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920), by George Ade, John T. McCutcheon, Country Life Press, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
Old Drury lane; fifty years' recollections of author, actor, and manager. (Chatto and Windus, 1881), by Edward Stirling (page images at HathiTrust)
Samantha among the brethren (Funk & Wagnalls, 1892), by Marietta Holley (page images at HathiTrust)
Chimes from a jester's bells; stories and sketches (Bowen-Merrill, 1897), by Robert J. Burdette, Louis Braunhold, and Bowen-Merrill Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Theatrical anecdotes, or Fun and curiosities of the play, the playhouse, and the players (Chatto and Windus, 1882), by Jacob Larwood (page images at HathiTrust)
Good Gravy a pure tonic of wit and humor. (Original) (The Helman, Taylor, 1901), by Ezra Kendall and W.J. Morgan & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Law and lawyers in literature (Soule and Bugbee, 1883), by Irving Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
Albert Chevalier. A record by himself (J. Macqueen, 1895), by Albert Chevalier and Brian Daly (page images at HathiTrust)
More nonsense, pictures, rhymes, botany, etc. (London : Robert John Bush, 1872., 1872), by Edward Lear (page images at HathiTrust)
The maxims of Noah. Derived from his experience with women both before and after the flood as given in counsel to his son Japhet (Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1913), by Gelett Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
The Squibob papers. (Carleton, 1865), by George Horatio Derby (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit, humor, and Shakespeare (Roberts Brothers, 1876), by John Weiss (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare's wit and humour (G.W. Jacobs & co., 1912), by William Shakespeare and William Alexander Lawson (page images at HathiTrust)
Translations and tomfooleries (Brentano's, 1926), by Bernard Shaw and Siegfried Trebitsch (page images at HathiTrust)
Der Jurist im Drama der elisabethanischen Zeit (Buchdruckerei von Heinrich John, 1906), by Hermann Bormann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Curiosities of literature, and the literary character illustrated. (Leavitt and Co., 1851), by Isaac Disraeli and Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
Mr. Dooley's philosophy (R.H. Russell, 1900), by Finley Peter Dunne, Frederick Burr Opper, E. W. Kemble, and William Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust)
Hector Berlioz, selections from his letters, and aesthetic, humorous, and satirical writings (H. Holt and company, 1879), by Hector Berlioz and William Foster Apthorp (page images at HathiTrust)
Humorous phases of the law. (S. Whitney & Co., 1876), by Irving Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
Playing about; or Theatrical anecdotes and adventures, with scenes of general nature, from the life; in England, Scotland, and Ireland (The author, sold by W. Sams, 1840), by Benson E. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
Grobianvs (Weidmann Buchhandlung, 1903), by Friedrich Dedekind and Aloys Bömer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The physiology of the London medical student, and curiosities of medical experience (Carey and Hart, 1845), by Albert Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
"Scratches" of a surgeon (W. A. Chatterton and company, 1879), by William Tod Helmuth and Wm. A. Chatterton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Qing wai shi (Wu zhou shu ju, 1914), by Gulinghouren jiang zhai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Watakushi no mita Meiji bundan (Shun'yōdō, 1927), by Sabun Nozaki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Flashes of wit from bench and bar (Collector Pub. Co., 1897), by William C. Sprague (page images at HathiTrust)
Revelations of a library life, 1876-1922, including recollections of Edinburgh professors; student life, past and present, with many personal adventures and anecdotes (J. Thin, 1923), by David Cuthbertson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mrs. Caudle's curtain lectures. (Hurd and Houghton, 1867), by Douglas Jerrold and Charles Keene (page images at HathiTrust)
Jon Duan : a twofold journey with manifold purposes (Weldon & Co., 1874), by Samuel Orchart Beeton, Philander Smiff, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, George R. Emerson, Matilda Browne, S. R. Emerson, Evelyn Douglas Jerrold, A. A. Dowty, and Weldon & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
D. Ivnii Ivvenalis et Avlii Persii Flacci Satyrae : ad fidem optimorum librorum accurate recensitae. (Ex Officina Academica, A. Vandenhoeck, 1742), by Juvenal and Persius (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches and burlesques. (D. Appleton and Company, 1903), by George Horatio Derby, E. W. Kemble, John Kendrick Bangs, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Curiosities of literature (W. Veazie, 1858), by Isaac Disraeli and Benjamin Disraeli (page images at HathiTrust)
... Sägner ... (Svenska Litteratursãllskapet i Finland, 1924), by Vilhelm Elliel Viktor Wessman and Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The devil's dictionary (Mount Vernon, New York : Peter Pauper Press, [1958], 1958), by Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Low, and Peter Pauper Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The bachelor's guide to matrimony (H. Altemus company, 1907), by Reginald Wright Kauffman (page images at HathiTrust)
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi. A series of sketches. (S. Whitney & co., 1876), by Joseph G. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
The Prince's visit: a humorous description of the tour of His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, through the United States of America, in 1860. (B. Frodsham, 1861), by R. J. De Cordova (page images at HathiTrust)
Around the world with Josiah Allen's wife (G.W. Dillingham Co., 1905), by Marietta Holley and Eve Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)
Me and Lawson : "Humpty" Hotfoots little run in with Frenzied Copper, Amalgamated Gas and Scrambled Oil (G.W. Dillingham Company, 1905), by Richard Webb, Max J. Spero, W. W. Denslow, and G.W. Dillingham Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Lyrics of Lincoln's Inn, with notes for the benefit of the unlearned. (Sweet and Maxwell, limited, 1896), by T. Cyprian Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
Farmer's allminax (G. W. Carlton., 1870), by Josh Billings and G.W. Carleton & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Bockspiel Martin Luthers. (Hofbuchdr. von C.A. Kaemmerer & Co., 1905), by Otto Kaufmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Bench and bar : a complete digest of the wit, humor, asperities, and amenities of the law (Harper & brothers, 1871), by L. J. Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
Narratives, scenes, and anecdotes from courts of justice (Cornish, Lamport & Co., 1853), by Peter Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
Pleasantries about courts and lawyers of the state of New York (Richardson, 1867), by Charles Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
Anecdotes médicales; bons mots, pensées et maximes, chansons, épigrammes, etc. (Marpon et Flammarion, 1882), by G.-J. Witkowski (page images at HathiTrust)
Stolen correspondence from the "Dead letter" office between musical celebrities (The Gervais pub. co., 1901), by Platon Gregoriewitch Brounoff (page images at HathiTrust)
Face to face with great musicians (D. Appleton and company, 1921), by Charles D. Isaacson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Eutychus and his relations; pulpit and pew papers (American Unitarian association, 1905), by Brooke Herford (page images at HathiTrust)
The adventures of my Cousin Smooth. (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856), by Charles Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the United States (Thompson & Thomas, 1906), by Bill Nye, Frederick Burr Opper, and Thompson & Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
Idiot (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900), by John Kendrick Bangs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia. (Bromley & Co., J.F. Feeks, 1864), by Charles Augustus Davis and Seba Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
A corner in women, and other follies (Moffat, Yard & company, 1905), by Thomas Lansing Masson, Charles H. Ebert, C. J. Budd, H. C. Wall, A. B. Walker, John Alonzo Williams, Clyde J. Newman, Albert Levering, Albert D. Blashfield, F. W. Read, James Montgomery Flagg, T. K. Hanna, E. W. Kemble, John Cecil Clay, Raymond Moreau Crosby, C. Allan Gilbert, and Charles Dana Gibson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The ten books of the merrymakers (Circle Pub. Co., 1909), by Marshall P. Wilder (page images at HathiTrust)
An English girl in Paris. (John Lane, 1902), by John Lane Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Anecdota graeca (J.C. Hinrichs, 1828), by Ludwig Bachmann and Bibliothèque nationale (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
Marriage in epigram. Stings, flings, facts, and fancies from the thought of ages. (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1903), by Frederick W. Morton and Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Anecdotes of fish and fishing (Hamilton, Adams, 1887), by Thomas Boosey (page images at HathiTrust)
Fun in a doctor's life ... (Evolution pub. co., 1909), by Shobal Vail Clevenger (page images at HathiTrust)
Death, the devil and the doctor, on the war. (Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1862), by Samuel Silsbee (page images at HathiTrust)
Anecdotes of great musicians. Three hundred anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers. (T. Presser, 1895), by Willey Francis Gates (page images at HathiTrust)
Abraham Africanus I : his secret life, as revealed under the mesmeric influence : mysteries of the White House. (J.F. Feeks, 1864), by Alexander Del Mar and John F. Feeks & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
The dollar or the man? : the issue of to day (Small, Maynard & Company, 1900), by Homer Davenport, Horace Traubel, Innes & Sons, and Maynard & Company Small (page images at HathiTrust)
The comedy of canonization : in four scenes. (Pott and Amery, No. 5 Cooper Union, 1868), by Milo Mahan and Pott and Amery (page images at HathiTrust)
Fishery imbroglio : a sketch : treating of a question in the domain of intersexual politics (Gilliss Brothers & Turnure, 1886), by Charles William Woolsey (page images at HathiTrust)
Cyclopædia of literary and scientific anecdote: illustrations of the characters, habits and conversation of men of letters and science. (R. Griffin and co., 1854), by William Keddie (page images at HathiTrust)
Deti (880-04 Kon-polʹ [i.e. Constantinople] : Knigoidatepʹsvo "Kulʹtura", 1922., 1922), by Arkadiĭ Averchenko (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Artemus Ward (his travels) among the Mormons ... (J. C. Hotten, 1865), by Edward P. Hingston (page images at HathiTrust)
Yankee notions (T. W. Strong, 1853), by Thomas W. Strong, Augustus Hoppin, John McLenan, and T.W. Strong (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
Stage-land : curious habits and customs of its inhabitants (Chatto & Windus, 1889), by Jerome K. Jerome and Bernard Partridge (page images at HathiTrust)
The comic Latin grammar : a new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue (Charles Tilt, 1840), by Percival Leigh, Clarence S. Bement, and John Leech (page images at HathiTrust)
A philosophical, historical, and moral essay on old maids. (Printed for T. Cadell, 1793), by William Hayley (page images at HathiTrust)
On the amusements of clergymen, and Christians in general : three dialogues between a dean and a curate (Printed by A.J. Valpy for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1820), by Edward Stillingfleet (page images at HathiTrust)
Curiosities of literature. (J. Murray, etc., 1807), by Isaac Disraeli (page images at HathiTrust)
The man of the world's dictionary. (Appleyard, 1822), by Alexandre Baudouin (page images at HathiTrust)
The Dublin mail, or Intercepted correspondence ... (Megarey, 1822), by W. R. Macdonald, John A. Gilbert, and King of Great Britain George IV (page images at HathiTrust)
Felix Farley, rhymes, : Latin and English, (Printed and published by J.M. Gutch, at the office of Felix Farley's Bristol Journal., 1826), by John Eagles (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of a manager; or, Life's stage with new scenery (W. Bragg, 1830), by Henry Lee and Lucius Poole (page images at HathiTrust)
Camara optica, onde as vistas ás avessas mostrão o mundo a's direitas. (Officina de J.F.M. de Campos, 1824), by José Daniel Rodrigues da Costa (page images at HathiTrust)
Historic doubts relative to Napoleon Buonaparte (B. Fellowes, 1833), by Richard Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
The arts and artists, or Anecdotes & relics, of the schools of painting, sculpture & architecture (J. Knight & H. Lacey, 1825), by James Elmes (page images at HathiTrust)
A view of Lower Canada, interspersed with Canadian tales and anecdotes and interesting information to intending emigrants (Printed by R. Menzies ..., for the author, 1821), by Andrew Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)
Hazofe (der hebräische Zuschauer) ([s.n.], 1840), by Isaac Erter (page images at HathiTrust)
Handbook of swindling (Chapman and Hall, 1839), by Douglas Jerrold, Hablot Knight Browne, John Jackdaw, and John Jackdaw (page images at HathiTrust)
Physiologie du troupier (Aubert, 1841), by Emile Marco de Saint-Hilaire (page images at HathiTrust)
Soldiers and sailors : or, Anecdotes, details, and recollections of naval and military life (J. Harris, 1842), by Old Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)
The Percy anecdotes ... (Harper, 1839), by Reuben Percy and Sholto Percy (page images at HathiTrust)
Rollo's journey to Cambridge. (Walker & Aspinwall, 1895), by John T. Wheelwright, Frederic Jesup Stimson, and Francis Gilbert Attwood (page images at HathiTrust)
"The fotygraft album" : shown to the new neighbor by Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged eleven (Reilly & Britton, 1915), by Francis Marion Wing (page images at HathiTrust)
Feu le Boulevart du Temple : résurrection épistolaire ([s.n.], 1863), by Charles Maurice (page images at HathiTrust)
Abuses of English law (Cornish, Lamport, 1852), by Samuel Warren, Charles Dickens, and Lamport & Co Cornish (page images at HathiTrust)
The Napoleon Ballads (New York : G. P. Putnam, 1852), by Theodore Martin and Napoleon III (page images at HathiTrust)
The humbugs of the world (John Camden Hotten, 1866), by P. T. Barnum (page images at HathiTrust)
How to get a rich wife. (J.B. Steel, 1858), by Samuel Stone Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches of Cantabs. (G. Earle, 1850), by John Delaware Lewis, Hablot Knight Browne, and George Earle (page images at HathiTrust)
The fight at Dame Europa's school : shewing how the German boy thrashed the French boy and how the English boy looked on. (Canadian News and Pub. Co., 1871), by H. W. Pullen (page images at HathiTrust)
Physic and physicians: a medical sketch book, exhibiting the public and private life of the most celebrated medical men of former days; with memoirs of eminent living London physicians and surgeons. In two parts. (G.B. Zieber & Co., 1845), by Forbes Winslow (page images at HathiTrust)
Curiosities of literature (Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1859), by Isaac Disraeli and Benjamin Disraeli (page images at HathiTrust)
Recollections of the court room, or, Narratives, scenes and anecdotes from courts of justice. (H. Dayton:, 1859), by Peter Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
Histoire naturelle drolatique et philosophique des professeurs du Jardin des Plantes : des aide-naturalistes, préparateurs, etc., attachés a cet établissement accompagnée d'épisodes scientifiques et pittoresques (Gustave Sandré, 1847), by Isidore de Salles and Isidore S. de Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
Chit-chat of humor, wit, and anecdote. (Stringer & Townsend, 1857), by Thomas Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches and burlesques. (D. Appleton and company, 1856), by George Horatio Derby (page images at HathiTrust)
Libelløus, or, A little book of the vision of Shawmut. (Jordan & Wiley ;, 1847), by James Cook Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
Curiosities of literature. (London, New York, 1858), by Isaac Disraeli and Benjamin Disraeli (page images at HathiTrust)
The natural history of 'stuck-up' people (D. Bogue, 1847), by Albert Smith, A. Henning, and Vizetelly Brothers & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
The Railway anecdote book: a collection of anecdotes and incidents of travel by river and rail. (D. Appleton & co., 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
Literature and life. (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
Curiosités judiciaires historiques, anecdotiques, recueillies et mises en ordre par B. Warée. (Adolphe Delahays, 1859), by B. Warée (page images at HathiTrust)
Cyclopaedia of commercial and business anecdotes; comprising interesting reminiscences and facts, remarkable traits and humors ... of merchants, traders, bankers ... etc. in all ages and countries ... (D. Appleton and Company, 1865), by R. M. Devens (page images at HathiTrust)
Major Downing's letters to Dwight (Harper & Brothers, 1835), by Charles Augustus Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
Neuer Reineke Fuchs. (C. B. Lorck, 1846), by Adolf Glassbrenner (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters from the South (Harper, 1835), by James Kirke Paulding and Emily Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches and burlesques. (D. Appleton & Company, 1870), by George Horatio Derby and John Judson Ames (page images at HathiTrust)
Historical sketches of the old painters. (E.J. Peet, 1841), by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
Les grotesques de la musique ... (Calmann Lévy, 1871), by Hector Berlioz (page images at HathiTrust)
A Dutchman's difficulties with the English language. (A. Strahan, 1865), by J. de Liefde (page images at HathiTrust)
Paris sketch book of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh and the memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush (Smith, 1868), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
Waggeries and vagaries (Peterson, 1843), by William E. Burton, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, and Pa.) T.B. Peterson & Brothers (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
Sayings, wise and otherwise (United States Book Co., 1870), by Frederic S. Cozzens (page images at HathiTrust)
Old Abe's jokes : fresh from Abraham's bosom : containing all iis [sic] issues, excepting the "greenbacks," to call in some of which, this work is issued. (T. R. Dawley, 1864), by T. R. Dawley (page images at HathiTrust)
The political life of Cornelius Cuffey, Esq., patriot, &c., &c. (Printed for sale at the bazaar in aid of the [...] , 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
Plu-ri-bus-tah : a song that's by no author : a deed without a name (T. B. Peterson, 1856), by Q. K. Philander Doesticks (page images at HathiTrust)
Bench and bar : a complete digest of the wit, humor, asperities, and amenities of the law : with portraits and illustrations (Harper & Brothers, 1871), by L. J. Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches of the Irish bar (W. J. Widdleton, 1854), by Richard Lalor Sheil and R. Shelton Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
Epaves, thèâtre, histoire, anecdotes, mots (Typographie Alcan-Lévy, 1865), by Charles Maurice (page images at HathiTrust)
Recollections of the court room (H. Dayton, 1860), by Peter Burke and Samuel Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
Historic doubts relative to Napoleon Buonaparte (Fellowes, 1841), by Richard Whately and Emperor of the French Napoleon I (page images at HathiTrust)
Yankee notions (T.W. Strong], 1852), by Thomas W. Strong, John McLenan, and T.W. Strong (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
Siyer-i celile-yi Nebeviye (880-03 Darülhilafe : Tevsii Tabaat Matbaası, 1332 [1913 or 1914], 1913), by İzmirli İsmail Hakkı (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Adskai︠a︡ pochta. (Izd. E.E. Lansere, 1906), by P. N. Troi︠a︡nskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The foolish dictionary an exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures (Montreal News, 1904), by Gideon Wurdz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mr. Punch's history of modern England (Stokes, 1921), by Charles L. Graves (page images at HathiTrust)
Lawyers' merriments (J. MacLehose and sons, 1912), by David Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
Schiller als Komiker (C. Winter, 1891), by Kuno Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)
Curiosities of literature (G. Routledge and Sons, 1893), by Isaac Disraeli (page images at HathiTrust)
Book of snobs. (Dent, 1903), by William Makepeace Thackeray, C. E. Brock, and Walter Jerrold (page images at HathiTrust)
The complete works of Artemus Ward : (Charles Farrar Browne) (A. L. Burt Co., 1898), by Artemus Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Doctors and doctors : some curious chapters in medical history and quackery (S. Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1888), by Graham Everitt (page images at HathiTrust)
Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine (R. Bentley and Son, 1873), by John Timbs and Leon Banov (page images at HathiTrust)
Office boy's digest; cullings from the American, English, and Canadian reports, selected and compiled by the office boy (The Michie company, 1904), by B. A. Milburn (page images at HathiTrust)
Flashes of wit from bench and bar (Sprague, 1903), by William C. Sprague (page images at HathiTrust)
Told out of court; personal experiences of members of the Chicago Bench and bar. (P. G. Smyth, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust)
The barrister: being anecdotes of the late Tom Nolan of the New York bar (with portrait) (Mab press, 1902), by Charles Frederick Stansbury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
An evening from among the thousand evenings which may be spent with "Punch" : being a selection, from the "First fifty years of 'Punch, '" ... to which are added ... notes and comments. (London : Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1900., 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Builders of our law during the reign of Queen Victoria. (H. Cox, 1904), by Edward Manson (page images at HathiTrust)
Trench gas : a bunch of many clever chestnuts (A.M. Davis, 1918), by Bert Milton (page images at HathiTrust)
The Germans in Cork : being the letters of His Excellency the Baron von Kartoffel (Military Governor of Cork in the year 1918) and others. (Talbot Press, 1917), by Fritz von Kartoffel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Le docteur sans pareil; comédie en un acte en vers. (A.Lemerre, 1875), by Ernest d' Hervilly (page images at HathiTrust)
Anecdotes of great musicians : three hundred anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers (Weekes & Co., 1896), by Willey Francis Gates (page images at HathiTrust)
Le mal qu'on a dit des médecins (C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1884), by G.-J. Witkowski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A bar-lamb's ballad book (Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner, 1902), by Evelyn Underhill (page images at HathiTrust)
Jottings of an old solicitor (J. Murray, 1906), by John Hollams (page images at HathiTrust)
Curious cases and amusing actions at law, including some trials of witches in the seventeenth century. (Sweet & Maxwell, limited;, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Wit and humor: their use and abuse. (S.C. Griggs and Company, 1888), by William Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
The I-did-it club. (Published by the Menu Committee of the Gridiron Club, 1916), by D.C.) Gridiron Club (Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
Woman's suffrage (G. Holzapfel, 1894), by L. E. Keith, illust. by S. J. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
Eutychus and his relations : pulpit and pew papers (P. Green, 1905), by Brooke Herford (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches from French history (Bickers, 1878), by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Insel der Blödsinnigen : die Tollheiten der Moderne in Wort und Bild (Verlag der "Lustigen Blätter", 1902), by Leo Wulff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Gormanius, or, The battle of Reps-Demos (American Writers' Trust, 1902), by T. C. De Leon (page images at HathiTrust)
The literary shop, and other tales (G. H. Richmond & co., 1895), by James L. Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
An anecdotal history of the British Parliament, from the earliest periods to the present time. With notices of eminent parliamentary men, and examples of their oratory. (Horace Cox, 1892), by George Henry Jennings (page images at HathiTrust)
The golden age of patents : a parody on Yankee inventiveness (F.A. Stokes and Brother, 1888), by Wallace Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
Batiste of Isle La Motte : his "trubbles" (Free Press Printing Company, 1915), by D. T. Trombley and Free Press Printing Co (page images at HathiTrust)
The blunders of a bashful man. (J. S. Ogilvie Pub. Co., 1881), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor and J.S. Ogilvie & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Later leaves : being the further reminiscences of Montagu Williams, Q.C. (Macmillan, 1891), by Montagu Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
Dialogue with the gout. ([Printed by C. P. Rollins, Montague, Mass.], 1917), by Benjamin Franklin, Carl Purington Rollins, George Parker Winship, Luther S. Livingston, and Montague Press (page images at HathiTrust)
Satire on the deification of Claudius (Macmillan, 1908), by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and Allan Perley Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
Curiosités judiciaires historiques, anecdotiques, recueillies et mises en ordre par B. Wareé. (Garnier frères, 1877), by B. Warée (page images at HathiTrust)
Scherz und Ernst in der Jurisprudenz; eine Weihnachtsgabe für das juristische Publikum. (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1885), by Rudolf von Jhering (page images at HathiTrust)
Scherz und ernst in der jurisprudenz. Eine weih-nachtsgabe für das juristische publikum (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1904), by Rudolf von Jhering (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
L'année théâtrale; nouvelles, bruits de coulisses, indiscrétions, comptes rendus, racontars, etc. (Tresse, 1875), by Georges Duval (page images at HathiTrust)
Later leaves : being the further reminiscences ofMontagu Williams, Q.C. (Macmillan, 1891), by Montagu Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
Lays of the law, being a selection of leading cases from the Bombay high courts reports, done into verse, after the manner of various other great poets (Bombay gazette steam press, 1882), by W. E. H. and India. Bombay High Court (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches of the Irish bar (P. Kenedy, 1882), by Richard Lalor Sheil and R. Shelton Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
The funny side of physic : or, the mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice : an exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries (Burr Pub. Co., 1877), by Addison Darre Crabtre (page images at HathiTrust)
Aus dem Hamsterkasten; Erinnerungen. (Seitz & Schauer, 1902), by Heinrich Berger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The foolish dictionary; an exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures (The Robinson, Luce company, 1904), by Gideon Wurdz, Elisha Brown Bird, and Wallace Goldsmith (page images at HathiTrust)
A highland gathering by E. Lennox Peel. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1885), by E. Lennox Peel, Charles Whymper, and Edward Whymper (page images at HathiTrust)
The holy cross : and other tales. (Scribner, 1896), by Eugene Field (page images at HathiTrust)
Kaiser of dis Fatherland (New York ; London ; Montreal : The Abbey Press, Publishers, 114 Fifth Avenue, New York, [1900], 1900), by A. McGregor Rose and Jessie A. Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Cook-ed-up Peary-odd-ical dictionary and who's hoot in the best arctic circles ... written by degrees by disagreeing fellow of various degrees of fearlessness (J.W. Luce and Company, 1910), by Lewis Allen Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
The new history of Sandford and Merton (Roberts Brothers, 1872), by F. C. Burnand, Thomas Day, Linley Sambourne, Mass.) Roberts Brothers (Boston, and Evans & Co Bradbury (page images at HathiTrust)
Wants (John C. Winston, 1909), by Clare Victor Dwiggins (page images at HathiTrust)
Foolish etiquette ... (J. W. Luce and company, 1906), by O. B. Hayve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mémoires d'un chef de claque; souvenirs des théatres (Librarie Nouvelle, 1883), by Jules Lan (page images at HathiTrust)
The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue (Methuen, 1903), by Percival Leigh and John Leech (page images at HathiTrust)
A bunch of horseless nonsense (Guarantee Pub. Co., 1907), by Ralph Aberdein Lyon (page images at HathiTrust)
Humor im schachspiel; eine sammlung auserlesener humoresken, novelle, skizzen, anekdoten, miniatur-partien, scherz-probleme, schwänke, calembourgs, aphorismen, lieder u. s. w. auf dem gebiete des schach. (A. Roegner, 1885), by Johannes Minckwitz (page images at HathiTrust)
Khaki comedy (The Howell Publishing Company, 1918), by Edward D. Rose (page images at HathiTrust)
Another Annapolis alphabet; pictures and limericks (Lord Baltimore Press, 1907), by William Oliver Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
Miss Belladonna; a child of to-day (Little, Brown, 1897), by Caroline Ticknor, L. J. Bridgman, John Wilson and Son, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and Brown and Company Little (page images at HathiTrust)
Major Max expounds. (Lovell, Coryell], 1895), by Edward W. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare for the unsophisticated. (The Nantucket Publishing Co., 1901) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tobacco jokes for smoking folks. (Tobacco office, 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
Haverholme. (W. Mullan and Son, 1878), by Edward Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
Stage-land : curious habits and customs of its inhabitants (H. Holt, 1906), by Jerome K. Jerome (page images at HathiTrust)
Frozen Dog tales : and other things (The Everett Press Company, 1905), by William C. Hunter, R. M. Hynes, F. Holme, Everett Press Company, and Decorative Designers (page images at HathiTrust)
My soundspeed discovery, expanding into a constructive medley of wit and song. Being a four years after-inflorescence of the life romance of an algebraist (The author, 1895), by George Winslow Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)
Tales and Sketches ("Land and Water" Office, 1872), by George Rooper (page images at HathiTrust)
Ein Ritt durch Wien auf dramatischem Felde (E. J. Günther, 1876), by Moritz Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)
Angling done here! (Jarrold, 1897), by W. Carter Platts (page images at HathiTrust)
Knickerbocker's history of New York; Knickerbocker miscellanies. (Collier, 1904), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The autocrat of the breakfast table : every man his own Boswell. (Houghton, Mifflin and co., 1883), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
English as she is taught; genuine answers to some examination questions asked in our public schools. (The Century Co., 1887), by Caroline B. Le Row (page images at HathiTrust)
A bundle of sunshine, an avalanche of mirth : truthful reminiscences of a peregrinator, whose life has been one of calamities, hard luck, accidents and fun (Monarch book company, 1901), by Press Woodruff and Walter A. Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
The blot on the queen's head; or, How little Ben, the head waiter, changed the sign of the Queen's inn to "Empress Hotel, Limited" and the consequences thereof (Strahan, 1876), by Edward Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
The spaniel-prince; from the French of M. Laboulaye ... (E. Howell;, 1895), by Édouard Laboulaye and Mary E. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
The foolish almanack for the year 1906 A.D. and the fifth since the discovery of race suicide by President Roosevelt ... (J. W. Luce and company, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Potash and Perlmutter (Henry Altemus company, 1910), by Montague Glass (page images at HathiTrust)
Spots of wit and humor (original) (Helman, Taylor Co., 1899), by Ezra Kendall (page images at HathiTrust)
The silly syclopedia ... containing copious etymological derivations and other useless things (G. W. Dillingham Co., 1905), by George V. Hobart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Americanismo fiorentino; sport, flirtation and marriage (Stabilimento tipog. G.Civelli, 1891), by Ernesto Zenuti and Gandolin (page images at HathiTrust)
Curiosities of matrimony : being a compilation of such marriage announcements in the last hundred years as called forth the most brilliant wit of the poets. (Concord, N.H. : Edson C. Eastman, [1889], 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
Little laughs over the lives of musicians (H. M. Strong, 1907), by Howard Marcus Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
Sprut : khudozhestvenno-satiricheski i zhurnal. (M.G. Kornfel d, 1905), by M. I. Titov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Scenes and sketches in legal life. (W. P. Nimmo, 1876), by William Spink (page images at HathiTrust)
The pleader's guide, a didactic poem, in two books, containing the conduct of a suit at law, with the arguments of Counsellor Bother'um, and Counsellor Bore'um, in an action betwixt John-a-Gull, and John-a-Gudgeon, for assault and battery (William Gould & Son ;, 1870), by John -1819 Anstey and James L. High (page images at HathiTrust)
The tutor and student (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1858), by Member of the Middle Temple (page images at HathiTrust)
Face to face with great musicians (D. Appleton and co., 1918), by Charles David Isaacson (page images at HathiTrust)
Black diamonds, or, Humor, satire, and sentiment, treated scientifically by professor Julius Cæsar Hannibal : in a series of burlesque lectures, darkly colored. (T. L. Magagnos, 1855), by Julius Caesar Hannibal and John William Orr (page images at HathiTrust)
A Chance medley of legal points and legal stories. (Little, Brown, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust)
His Majesty King wine (Chanilex Pub., 1900), by Frank A. Kullak (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Process of canonization in the Church of England (Kegan Paul, Trench, 1887), by Thomas Longueville and Prig (page images at HathiTrust)
Aristophanous Eirēnē. The Peace of Aristophanes. Acted at Athens at the great Dionysia, B.C. 421. (G. Bell & Sons, 1913), by Aristophanes and Benjamin Bickley Rogers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Les Veber's, les Veber's, les Veber's. (Paris : Émile Testard, éditeur, 1895., 1895), by Pierre Veber and Jean Veber (page images at HathiTrust)
Comic snapshots from early English history (London : Ernest Nister ; New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., [1895?], 1895), by Wil. The. Parkes (page images at HathiTrust)
Pictorial history of the United States (Leavitt & Allen, 1861), by Willis P. Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
The life and adventures of Dr. Dodimus Duckworth, A.N.Q. : To which is added, The history of a steam doctor. : In two volumes. Vol. I[-II]. (Published by Peter Hill, 94 Broadway., 1833), by Asa Greene, David Murphy, Thomas Snowden, and Peter Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
Hints to the craft : a Masonic poem. (Murphy & Bechtel, printers, 1860), by William R. Clapp and No. 50 Freemasons. Mercer Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
The offensive golfer (Prentice-Hall, 1963), by Dick Brooks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jeff in petticoats : a song for the times (Wm. A. Pond, 1865), by Henry Tucker and George Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
Della seccatura discorsi cinque (Appresso Pietro Valvasense, 1753), by Giovanni Battista Passeri, Pietro Valvasenese, and Giorgio Fossati (page images at HathiTrust)
The story of the bath. (Domestic Engineering, 1922), by Edwin L. Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
Podoroz͠h Mykyty Khruni͡a po amerykanskoĭ zemly (Nʹi͡u-Iork : Izd. P. Iv. Seĭfert, 1909., 1909), by I. I͡A. Lut͡syk (page images at HathiTrust)
Little odes to great folks; with a dedicatory dithyrambic to Sir R-ch-rd Ph-ll-ps, knight. (S.A. and H. Oddy;, 1808), by pseud Pindar Minimus (page images at HathiTrust)
The mock commencement : a burlesque entertainment (Eldridge Entertainment House, 1909), by Harry C. Eldridge (page images at HathiTrust)
The maxims of Methuselah : being the advice given by the patriarch in his nine hundred sixty and ninth year to his great grandson at Shem's coming of age, in regard to women (Arthur F. Bird, 1907), by Gelett Burgess, Tom Turner, and Louis D. Fancher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Risposte curiose che si danno ad ogni quesito in piu sort de' versi italiani, e latini : invenzione numerica (Presso Leonardo Pittoni padre dell' inventore, 1715), by Giovanni Battista Pittoni and Leonardo Pittoni (page images at HathiTrust)
Love letters of a rookie to Julie (Sherwood Co., 1919), by Barney Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
Fat man's polka redowa : as performed at the Fat Man's Ball, Irving Hall, Dec. 20th., 1869 by Grafullas's 7th. Regt. Band (Published for the Fat Man's Association by Wm. A. Pond, 1869), by Frederick H. Nash and C. R. Teller (page images at HathiTrust)
Histoire anecdotique des aliments (Paris : Henry Paulin et Cie, éditeurs, [1906], 1906), by Armand Dubarry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The philosophy of drinking and smoking. (E. Ferrett & Co., 1840), by Alfred Henry Forrester (page images at HathiTrust)
Britenspiegel : ein Buch von Englands Schande (Verlag der Lustigen Blätter (Dr. Eysler & Co., G.m.b.H.), 1915), by Alfred Brie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The comic history of Rome (Bradbury, Agnew & co., 1870), by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett and John Leech (page images at HathiTrust)
The hare's foot papers; or, Peeps behind the scenes (Rawlins, 1869), by Frederic Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
Camping sketches (R. Bentley, 1892), by George R. Lowndes (page images at HathiTrust)
The man who would like to marry. (London,etc., 1888), by Harry Parkes (page images at HathiTrust)
Rosie in squanderland; or, Billions for votes. (Paisley press, 1936), by Joseph Lewis Stackpole and Franklin D. Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jokes for all occasions (New York : Edward J. Clode, [1922], 1922), by Edward J. Clode (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
American wit and humor. (Published for N. Doubleday, by Doubleday, Page, 1925), by Thomas Lansing Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
Verdun, images de guerre, frontispice de Robida, pièces historiques, estampes, portraits, curiosités, 350 images et caricatures françaises, alliécs, neutres et ennemies, 12 planches horstexte. (Chapelot, 1916), by John Grand-Carteret (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
La esquella de la Torratxa. (Barcelona : Llibrería Espanyola, 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
...The colonel. A character sketch. (Bennett printing house, 1897), by Thomas R. R. Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
The pleader's guide : a didactic poem, in two parts : containing Mr. Surrebutter's poetical lectures on the conduct of a suit at law, including the arguments of Counsellor Bother'um & Counsellor Bore'um in an action for assault and battery betwixt John-a-Gull and John-a-Gudgeon. (H. Butterworth, 1826), by John Anstey (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches by Seymour. (M.A. Nattali, 1838), by Richard Brinsley Peake and Robert Seymour (page images at HathiTrust)
Mrs. Brown at Brighton (G. Routledge and Sons, 1875), by Arthur Sketchley (page images at HathiTrust)
Picolilly; or the critical chronicle of Ichabod Oculus, Esq. and others. (Phelps and Farnham, printers., 1823), by Washington Parker Gregg (page images at HathiTrust)
Foreign Office, diplomatic, and consular sketches. (W.H. Allen, 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
Gens de loi; scènes de la vie judiciaire sous la 3e République. (E. Figuière, 1913), by C. Rideo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mark Twain's Sketches, new and old. (The American Pub. Company, 1887), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
Trip from Hartwell to Dover (J. Johnston, 1814), by C. F. Lawler and Peter Pindar (page images at HathiTrust)
Landholders and the contractors in the dumps (E. Wilson, 1814), by George Daniel and John Agg (page images at HathiTrust)
Guía de cortesanas en Madrid y provincias (Biblioteca Hispania, 1921), by Ana Diaz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The anecdote book : a choice collection of anecdotes, jests, witty sayings, bon mots, &c., &c., selected from the best sources. (Printed for the Booksellers, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
Ecclésiastique-Magistrat (Chez Rosa, 1820), by William Hone, George Cruikshank, and John Stoddart (page images at HathiTrust)
The metamorphosis of Ajax : a cloacinean satire ; with the Anatomy and apology (from the Press of C. Whittingham, 1814), by John Harington and H. F. B. Brett-Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
A satire upon physicians, or an English paraphrase : with notes and references, of Dr. King's most memorable oration, delivered at the dedication of the Radclivian Library in Oxford ; to which is added, a curious petition to an Hon. House, in favour of Dr. King. (Printed for R. Griffiths, 1755) (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoir of John Nasmyth : minister of Ceres, 1878-1894, with selections from his writings ([publisher not identified], 1895), by John Nasmyth (page images at HathiTrust)
Mr. and Mrs. John Brown "at home" (A.H. Wheeler, 1918), by John Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Slow train and what happened on it (J.S. Ogilvie Pub. Co., 1908), by J. S. Ogilvie (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor of the age; comprising wit, humor, pathos, ridicule, satires, dialects, puns ... (Star Pub. Co., 1892), by Mark Twain and Melville D. Landon (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketch book. Crayon papers. History of New York (New York : Belford Company, publishers 17-22 East 18th Street (publishers of Belford's Magazine), [1890?], 1890), by Washington Irving, Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, and Belford Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Wiener Stilwidrigkeiten : ungalante Zeitglossen (Wiener Literarische Gesellschaft, 1913), by Rudolf A. Lumbe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Calendari pera l'any ... (Estampa la "Renaixensa", 1905) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Dear dollink : Momma writes to her Frankie at the front (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1945), by Milt Gross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Pungent paragraphs; a handbook of humorous illustrations, wit and humor for debaters, lecturers, ministers, after-dinner speakers, and for general reading (Leewin B. Williams and Son, 1926), by Leewin Bell Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
Fisher's River scenes. (Reproduced from the original by J.A. Snow, 1958), by Hardin E. Taliaferro and John Allen Snow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Cats of many lands (London ; Paris ; New York : Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., [between 1914 and 1923], 1914), by Louis Wain and Norman Gale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Anecdotes of painters, engravers, sculptors and architects and curiosities of art (J.W. Bouton, 1865), by Shearjashub Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)
Haunch, paunch and jowl (New York : Garden City Pub. Co., ©1923., 1923), by Samuel Ornitz and William Reese Company (page images at HathiTrust)

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