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• 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)
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  • 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)
• A nonsense anthology (C. Scribner's Sons, 1903), by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nonsense stories and alphabets. (F. Warne & co., ltd., 1935), by Edward Lear (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lampoons (E. Benn, 1925), by Humbert Wolfe and Bohun Lynch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Peter Piper's alphabet : Peter Piper's practical principles of plain and perfect pronunciation (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959), by Marcia Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Such nonsense! : an anthology (George H. Doran Company, 1918), by Carolyn Wells and George H. Doran Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Burgess nonsense book ; being a complete collection of the humorous masterpieces of Gelett Burgess ... (Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1901), by Gelett Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lampoons (George H. Doran ;, 1925), by Humbert Wolfe and Bohun Lynch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folly for the wise (The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1904), by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete nonsense book; containing all the original pictures and verses, together with new material (Dodd, Mead, 1943), by Edward Lear and Lady Strachey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The poetry of nonsense (G. Routledge, 1925), by Emile Cammaerts (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of nonsense verse (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926), by Langford Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• An alphabet of celebrities (Small, Maynard, 1899), by Oliver Herford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Duke of Berwick and other rhymes. (Martin Secker, 1925), by Alfred Bruce Douglas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Misrepresentative men (Fox, Duffield, 1904), by Harry Graham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nonsense books (Little, Brown, and company, 1931), by Edward Lear (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nonsense Books (Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1921., 1921), by Edward Lear (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nonsense books : with all the original illustrations (Little, Brown, 1888), by Edward Lear (page images at HathiTrust)
• A nonsense anthology. (C. Scribner's sons, 1902), by Carolyn Wells and Charles Scribner’s Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary frivolities, fancies, follies and frolics (Chatto and Windus, 1880), by William T. Dobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A nonsense anthology (C. Scribner's sons, 1903), by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• A nonsense anthology (C. Scribner's Sons, 1903), by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• An alphabet of celebrities (Small, Maynard, 1900), by Oliver Herford (page images at HathiTrust)
• A nonsense anthology (C. Scribner's sons, 1916), by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folly for the wise (Bobbs-Merrill, 1904), by Carolyn Wells, Margaret Armstrong, and Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An alphabet of celebrities (Small, Maynard, 1899), by Oliver Herford, Elisha Brown Bird, and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nonsense books. (Little, Brown and Company, 1888), by Edward Lear (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lyttel booke of nonsense (Macmillan, 1912), by Randall Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhymes without reason. (Hurd & Houghton, 401 Broadway, N.Y., 1864), by Hurd & Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A nonsense anthology (Scribner's, 1910), by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nonsense Books (Little, Brown, and Co., 1888), by Edward Lear (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bumblepuppy book (Isbister, 1903), by Carolyn Wells and Oliver Herford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Animal analogues (P. Elder and company, 1908), by Robert Williams Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of nonsense; verse, prose & pictures. (Dent;, 1928), by Ernest Rhys, Lewis Carroll, and Edward Lear (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The purple cow (Godfrey A.S. Wieners, 1898), by Gelett Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese jingles. (Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co., 1889), by Katheleen Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• More peers; verses. (A. A. Knopf, 1924), by Hilaire Belloc and B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nonsense songs and stories (Frederick Warne, 1899), by Edward Lear (page images at HathiTrust)
• A nonsense anthology (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903), by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bad child's book of beasts ; together with more beasts for worse children and cautionary tales (Knopf, 1924), by Hilaire Belloc and B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wallypug of Why, by G. E. Farrow, illust. by Dorothy Furniss and Harry Furniss (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lilliput Lyrics, by W. B. Rands, ed. by R. Brimley Johnson, illust. by Charles Robinson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Biography for Beginners: Being a Collection of Miscellaneous Examples for the Use of Upper Forms, ed. by E. C. Bentley, illust. by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dame Trot and Her Cat (Gutenberg ebook)
• Misrepresentative Women, by Harry Graham, illust. by Dan Sayre Groesbeck (Gutenberg ebook)
• More Misrepresentative Men, by Harry Graham, illust. by Malcolm A. Strauss (Gutenberg ebook)
• Misrepresentative Men, by Harry Graham, illust. by F. Strothmann (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Alphabet of Celebrities, by Oliver Herford (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Best Nonsense Verses, ed. by Josephine Daskam Bacon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fun and Nonsense, by Willard Bonte (Gutenberg ebook)
• A book of nonsense (1875), by Edward Lear (page images at Florida)
• An alphabet of celebrities (Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899), by Oliver Herford, illust. by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Elisha Brown Bird (page images at Florida)

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