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• Nonsense verses

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• Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Stephen Booth (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• 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)
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits (London: Macmillan and Co., 1876), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by Henry Holiday (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits (New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by Henry Holiday (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits (New York: Macmillan, 1902), by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, illust. by Henry Holiday
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• More Beasts (For Worse Children) (London; Duckworth and Co., n.d.), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Peter Piper's Playmates (Chicago: A. Whitman and Co., c1930), illust. by Eleanore Mineah Hubbard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org

• A Bizarre Company (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1913), by G. M. C. Fry (page images at Princeton)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (PDF and Epub with commentary at opensuny.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google
• The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
• Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
• The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amy E. Earhart (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), ed. by Raymond George Siemens and Susan Schreibman (frame-dependent HTML at digitalhumanities.org)

• A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2018), by Katherine Bode (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology, ed. by Kenneth M. Price and Raymond George Siemens (HTML at mla.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.