Satire, English -- Early works to 1800
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The Man in the Moon: or, Travels into the Lunar Regions, by the Man of the People (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Murray, 1783), by William Thomson- Human Passions Delineated in Above 120 Figures, Droll, Satyrical, and Humourous (1773), by Tim Bobbin, illust. by Thomas Sanders (page images at NIH)
- The History of John Bull, by John Arbuthnot, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
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Filed under: Satire, English- Court Satires of the Restoration (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by John Harold Wilson (PDF at Ohio State)
- Beware the Cat; and The Funerals of King Edward the Sixth (New London: Connecticut College, 1963), by William Baldwin, ed. by William P. Holden (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Satire Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1905), ed. by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling; Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot (Augustan reprint #140; texts originally published 1726 and 1727; Los Angeles: W. A. Clark Memorial Library, 1970), by Henry Carey, ed. by Samuel L. Macey (Gutenberg text, decorated HTML, and page images)
- Four Essays on Gulliver's Travels (Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1958), by Arthur Ellicott Case (page images at HathiTrust)
- Swift (London: Macmillan and Co., 1882), by Leslie Stephen (Gutenberg text)
- Swift (New York: Harper and Bros., 1882), by Leslie Stephen
- Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit (London: W. Wright, 1592), by Robert Greene (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- Iests to Make You Merie With the Coniuring Up of Cock Watt (the Walking Spirit of Newgate) to Tell Tales; Unto Which is Added, The Miserie of a Prison, and a Prisoner, and a Paradox in Praise of Serieants (London: Printed by N. Okes for N. Butter, 1607), by Thomas Dekker and George Wilkins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Groats-Worth Of Witte, Bought With a Million of Repentance; The Repentance of Robert Greene, 1592 (Bodley Head quartos #6; London: J. Lane; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1923), by Robert Greene, ed. by G. B. Harrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Human Passions Delineated in Above 120 Figures, Droll, Satyrical, and Humourous (1773), by Tim Bobbin, illust. by Thomas Sanders (page images at NIH)
- Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes, From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediteranean (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Morphew and J. Woodward, 1709), by Delarivier Manley
- Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes, From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean (sixth edition, 4 volumes in 2; London: Printed for J. Morphew, 1720), by Delarivier Manley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Proposals for Printing a Very Curious Discourse, in Two Volumes in Quarto, Intitled, [Pseudologia Politike]: or, A Treatise of the Art of Political Lying, by John Arbuthnot (HTML with commentary at ikanlundu.com)
- The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)
- The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
- Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
- Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- A Geographical Historie of Africa (London: G. Bishop, 1600), by Leo Africanus, trans. by John Pory
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
- The Travels of Ibn Batūta;: Translated from the Abridged Arabic Manuscript Copies Preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge, With Notes Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiques, &c Occurring Throughout the Work (London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Committee, 1829), by Ibn Batuta, ed. by Samuel Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1785), by Anthony Benezet
- Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-Wealths Thorowout the World, Discoursing of Their Situations, Religions, Languages, Manners, Customes, strengths, Greatnesse, and Policies (London: Printed by I. Haviland for I. Partridge, 1630), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms and Common-Weales Thorough the World, Discoursing of Their Scituations, Manners, Customes, Strengthes and Pollicies (London: Printed for J. Jaggard, 1611), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson
- The Periplus of Hanno: A Voyage of Discovery Down the West African Coast, by a Carthaginian Admiral of the Fifth Century B.C. (Philadelphia: Commercial Museum, 1912), by Hanno, trans. by Wilfred H. Schoff (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Discourse Intended to Commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus: Delivered at the Request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, on the 23d day of October, 1792, Being the Completion of the Third Century Since That Memorable Event; To Which Are Added Four Dissertations (Boston: Belknap and Hall, 1792), by Jeremy Belknap
- A Complete History of Algiers; To Which is Prefixed, An Epitome of the General History of Barbary, From the Earliest Times, Interspersed With Many Curious Passages and Remarks, Not Touched on by Any Writer Whatever (London: Printed by J. Bettenham for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1731), by J. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Complete History of Algiers; To Which is Prefixed, An Epitome of the General History of Barbary, From the Earliest Times, Interspersed With Many Curious Passages and Remarks, Not Touched on by Any Writer Whatever (London: Printed by J. Bettenham for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1731), by J. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Three Miseries of Barbary: Plague; Famine; Civill Warre; With a Relation of the Death of Mahamet the Late Emperour, and a Briefe Report of the Now Present Wars Betweene the Three Brothers (London: Printed by W. Iaggard for H. Gosson, 1607), by George Wilkins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The Golden Trade: or, A Discovery of the River Gambra, and the Golden Trade of the Aethiopians, by Richard Jobson
- A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793: And a Reputation of some Censures, Thrown upon Them in Some Late Publications (Philadelphia: Printed for the authors by W. W. Woodward, 1794), by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen
- A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793: And a Reputation of some Censures, Thrown upon Them in Some Late Publications (Philadelphia: Printed for the authors by W. W. Woodward, 1794), by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen
- Dissertation sur la Cause Physique de la Couleur des Negres, de la Qualité de Leurs CHeveux,et de la Degeneration de l'un et de l'Autre (in French; Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1741) (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Guide to Old Age: or, A Cure for the Indiscretions of Youth (2 volumes; London: J. W. Myers, 1797), by William Brodum
- A Guide to Health Through the Various Stages of Life (London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1754), by Bernard Lynch (page images at NIH)
- The Case of Labourers in Husbandry Stated and Considered, in Three Parts (London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795), by David Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
- Horse-Hoeing Husbandry (fourth edition; London: Printed for A. Millar, 1762), by Jethro Tull (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, or, An Essay on The Principles of Vegetation and Tillage: Designed to Introduce a New Method of Culture, Whereby the Produce of Land Will Be Increased, and the Usual Expence Lessened ; Together with Accurate Descriptions and Cuts of the Instruments Employed in It (third edition; London: Printed for A. Millar, 1751), by Jethro Tull
- Geoponika: Agricultural Pursuits (2 volumes; London: Printed for the author and sold by J. White, 1805-1806), trans. by Thomas Owen
- The Fourteen Books of Palladius Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus, on Agriculture (London: Printed for J. White, 1807), by Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, trans. by Thomas Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
- On Agriculture: With a Recension of the Text and an English Translation (3 volumes in Latin and English; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London, W. Heinemann Ltd, 1941-1955), by Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, ed. by Harrison Boyd Ash, E. S. Forster, and Edward H. Heffner (page images at HathiTrust)
- L'Économie Rurale de Columelle (3 volumes in French; Paris: Panckoucke, 1844-1845), by Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, trans. by Louis Du Bois
- A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, by Thomas Tusser (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- Les Agronomes Latins: Caton, Varron, Columelle, Palladius, Avec la Traduction en Français (in Latin and French; Paris: Firmin-Didot et cie, 1877), ed. by D. Nisard, contrib. by Marcus Porcius Cato, Marcus Terentius Varro, Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, and Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius (page images at HathiTrust)
- Palladius on Husbondrie: From the Unique MS. of About 1420 A.D. in Colchester Castle (EETS #52 and #72, 2 parts in 1 volume; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner, 1873-1879), by Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, ed. by Barton Lodge, contrib. by Sidney J. H. Herrtage
- Cato's Farm Management; Eclogues from the De Re Rustica of M. Porcius Cato, Done Into English, With Notes of Other Excursions In the Pleasant Paths of Agronomic Literature (Privately printed, 1910), by Marcus Porcius Cato, ed. by Fairfax Harrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro Done into English, With Notes of Modern Instances (New York: Macmillan, 1913), by Marcus Porcius Cato and Marcus Terentius Varro, ed. by Fairfax Harrison
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