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Filed under: Laughter -- Early works to 1800 Reflections Upon Laughter, and Remarks Upon the Fable of the Bees (Glasgow: Printed by R. Urie for D. Baxter, 1971), by Francis Hutcheson
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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)
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Filed under: Anecdotes 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
Filed under: College wit and humor 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)
Filed under: Comedy 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)
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Filed under: Limericks 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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Filed under: Parodies The Book of Ballads (New York: Redfield, 1852), ed. by Theodore Martin and William Edmondstoune Aytoun (PDF files at fcla.edu) Borrowed Plumes (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1902), by Owen Seaman (multiple formats at archive.org) A Christmas Garland, by Max Beerbohm (Gutenberg text) Collected Parodies (New York: G.H. Doran, ca. 1921), by John Collings Squire (multiple formats at archive.org) Green Bays: Verses and Parodies by Q., by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg text) Green Bays: Verses and Parodies by Q. (London: Methuen and Co., 1893), by Arthur Quiller-Couch (multiple formats at archive.org) Heavens (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Louis Untermeyer, illust. by C. Bertram Hartman Imaginary Speeches, and Other Parodies in Prose and Verse (London: S. Swift and Co., 1912), by John Collings Squire Lapsus Calami (first edition; Cambridge, UK: Macmillan and Bowes, 1891), by James Kenneth Stephen (multiple formats at archive.org) Lapsus Calami (fourth edition, "with considerable omissions and additions"; Cambridge, UK: Macmillan and Bowes, 1891), by James Kenneth Stephen Misfits: A Book of Parodies (Oxford: F. Harvey, 1905), by George F. Forrest (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody (London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1890), by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) Parodies of the Works of English and American Authors (6 volumes; London: Reeves and Turner, 1884-1889), by Walter Hamilton A Parody Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1904), ed. by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust) A Parody Outline of History, by Donald Ogden Stewart, illust. by Herb Roth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) The Poets in the Nursery (London and New York: J. Lane, 1920), by Charles Powell, contrib. by John Drinkwater Potted Fiction: Being a Series of Extracts from the World's Best Sellers Put Up in Thin Slices for Hurried Consumers (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1908), by John Kendrick Bangs (page images at HathiTrust) Rejected Addresses: or, The New Theatrum Poetarum (from the 1879 John Murray edition), by James Smith and Horace Smith (Gutenberg text) The Triumph of the Nut, and Other Parodies (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1923), by Christopher Ward (page images at HathiTrust) Nonsense Novels, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text) Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
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