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• The fight at Dame Europa's school : showing how the German boy thrashed the French boy, and how the English boy looked on (Francis B. Felt & Co., 455 Broome Street, 1871), by H. W. Pullen, Joseph T. Speer, Thomas Nast, Powers & Macgowan, and Francis B. Felt & Co (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)

• Caught napping. Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets (G.J. Palmer, 32, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1866) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The new intended act of Parliament. VR. (Printed at the "Catnach Press," by W.S. Fortey, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, 1860), by W. S. Fortey, Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), and Catnach Press (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pláticas de Asmodeo sobre todas las cosas pasadas, presentes y futuras, y las demás que ocurran, &c. : de rebus omnibus et de quibusdam aliis. (Impr. de F.A. Alvarez, 1851), by Rafael Agostini (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Crotchet Castle (Published by T. Hookham, Old Bond Street, 1831), by Thomas Love Peacock, Thomas Hookham, and J. and C. Adlard (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Brown's letters to a young man about town : wit [sic] The proser and other papers (D. Appleton & Company, 1853), by William Makepeace Thackeray, G. M. Williamson, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advice to a young reviewer : with a specimen of the art. (Sold by J. Parker, and J. Cooke ;, 1807), by Edward Copleston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern chivalry (American Book Company, 1937), by H. H. Brackenridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lorgnette (Charles Scribner, 1852), by Donald Grant Mitchell and Felix Octavius Carr Darley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Siamese twins. A satirical tale of the times. With other poems. (New York, Printed by J. & J. Harper, 1831), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Joseph Jewett, Uriah Hunt, Thomas Desilver, John Grigg, Oliver Steele, Charles Stephen Francis, Elam Bliss, Cushing & Sons, W. & J. Neal (Firm), Gray & Co Hilliard, Hendee & Babcock Carter, Lord & Holbrook Richardson, Carey & Hart, Towar & Hogan, Carey & Lea, Little & Cummings, Gallaher & White White, G. & C. & H. Carvill (Firm), N.Y.) Collins & Co. (New York, Collins & Hannay, and Printers J. & J. Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Benjamin Franklin primer. (Attleboro Chronicle Print, 1879), by F. B. Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British satirist. Comprising the best satires of the most celebrated poets, from Pope to Byron. Accompanied by original critical notices of the authors. (C. P. Fessenden, 1831), by David G. Johnson and Charles P. Fessenden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Piece of Friar Bacons brazen-heads prophesie. (Reprinted for the Percy Society by T. Richards, 1844), by William Terilo and J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• The embargo, or Sketches of the times : a satire. (Printed for the purchasers., 1808), by William Cullen Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Snoblace ball (Carleton, 1865), by Spectator (Author of The Snoblace ball) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le neveu de Rameau; satire. (P. Rouquette, 1884), by Denis Diderot and Maurice Tourneux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hamiltoniad (Sold for the author, price 31 cents, at the Independent Chronicle Office, Court-Street, Boston., 1805), by Anthony Pasquin, Seymour B. Durst, and Mass.) Independent Chronicle Office (Boston (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)
• Election ([London?] : [publisher not identified], [1785?], 1785) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Laurence Sterne, : in six volumes; containing The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gent--A sentimental journey through France and Italy--sermons--letters, &c. : with a life of the author, written by himself. : Volume I[-VI]. (Published by William Durell and Co. ..., 1813), by Laurence Sterne, John Boyle O'Reilly, Mary Boyle O'Reilly, Chester Stebbins, Thomas Stothard, Alexander Anderson, Thomas Gimbrede, Peter Maverick, and William Durell and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The motley assembly, : a farce. Published for the entertainment of the curious. (Printed and sold by Nathaniel Coverly, in Newbury-Street, 1779), by Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas W. Streeter, Matt Bushnell Jones, and Nathaniel Coverly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monumental records for the year 1980 (Printed for G. Kearsly, at No 46, in Fleet Street, 1780), by Herbert Croft and George Kearsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carta topografica dell'isola del maritaggio (publisher not identified, 1765), by Eustache Le Noble (page images at HathiTrust)
• American liberty triumphant (Printed by Styner and Cist, in Second-Street, near Arch-Street., 1776), by John Leacock, William L. Clements, and Styner and Cist (page images at HathiTrust)
• La pucelle d'Orléans : poëme, divisé en vingt chants, avec des notes. ([Cramer], 1762), by Voltaire, Hubert François Gravelot, and Hans M. Cramer (Firm) (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)
• Travels into several remote nations of the world : in four parts (London : Printed for Benj. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street, M,DCC,XXVI [1726], 1726), by Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Motte (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spunkiad: or Heroism improved. A Congressional display of spit and cudgel. : A poem, in four cantoes. / By an American youth. (Newburgh [N.Y.]: : Printed and sold by D. Denniston., M,DCC,XCVIII. [1798]), by American youth and John Woodworth (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Cow-chace, in three cantos, published on occasion of the rebel General Wayne's attack of the refugees block-house on Hudson's River, on Friday the 21st of July, 1780. (New-York: : Printed by James Rivington,, MDCCLXXX. [1780]), by John André, Jonathan Odell, and Jonathan Boucher (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Battle of Brooklyn, a farce of two acts: as it was performed on Long-Island, on Tuesday the 27th day of August, 1776. By the representatives of the tyrants of America, assembled at Philadelphia. : [Six lines from Hudibras] (New-York: : Printed for J. Rivington, :, in the year of the rebellion. 1776) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Blockheads: or, The affrighted officers. A farce. (Boston: : Printed [by John Gill] in Queen-Street., M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]), by Mercy Otis Warren (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An oration delivered March fifteenth, 1775, at the request of a number of the inhabitants of the town of Boston. By Dr. Thomas Bolton. ; [Three lines of quotations in Latin] ([Boston : s.n.], Printed in the year, M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]), by Thomas Bolton (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Occurences of the times. Or, The transactions of four days. (Viz.--from Friday the 16th, to Monday the 19th January, 1789. A farce. In two acts. : [Six lines of verse] ([Boston] : Printed [by Benjamin Russell] for the purchasers., [1789]), by William Hill Brown (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Stephen Burroughs's sermon, delivered in Rutland, on a hay mow, to his auditory the Pelhamites, at the time when a mob of them, after having pursued him to Rutland, in order to apprehend him because he had abruptly departed and absconded from Pelham, where he had been preaching the Gospel; shut him into a barn, into which he ran for asylum; when he ascended a hay-mow, which was inaccessible, except in one place, with a weapon of defence in his hand, with which he kept off his pursuers at pleasure, as mentioned in the author's Memoirs, p. 90, 91, and delivered to them the following sermon, on the occasion. ([Hanover, N.H.? : Printed by Benjamin True?, 1798?]), by Stephen Burroughs and Mass.) First Presbyterian Church (Pelham (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A pill for Porcupine: being a specific for an obstinate itching which that hireling has long contracted for lying and calumny, : containing, a vindication of the American, French, and Irish characters against his scurrilities. / By a friend to political equality. ; [Seven lines from Miles] (Philadelphia: : Printed [by Stewart & Cochran] for the author., September 1, 1796), by James Carey (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Liberty and property vindicated, and the st--pm-n burnt. A discourse occasionally made, on burning the effigy of the st--pm-n, in New-London, in the colony of Connecticut. / By a friend to the liberty of his county. ; Published by desire of some of the hearers, in the year 1765. ([New London, Conn. : Printed by Timothy Green, 1765]), by Benjamin Church (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The times a poem. ([Boston : Printed by Thomas & John Fleet, 1765]), by Benjamin Church (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An address to a provincial bashaw. [One line from Shakespeare] / By a son of liberty. ([Boston? : s.n.], Printed in (the tyrannic administration of St. Francisco) 1769), by Benjamin Church (HTML at Evans TCP)
• News from the moon. A review of the state of the British nation, vol. 7, number 14. page 53. Tuesday, May 10, 1710. ([Boston : Printed by James Franklin, 1721]), by Daniel Defoe (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A Dialogue, between the Devil and George III. tyrant of Britain, &c. &c. &c. &c. (Boston: : Printed and sold by Benjamin Edes and Sons, at their office in State-Street., M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The triumph of infidelity: a poem. ([Hartford? : s.n.], Printed in the world, M.DCC.LXXX.VIII. [1788]), by Timothy Dwight and Voltaire (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The life and death of Old Father Janus, the vile author of the late wicked Courant. A satyr. (Boston: : Printed and sold by J. Franklin in Union-Street., MDCCXXVI. [1726]), by James Franklin (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A journey from Philadelphia to New-York, by way of Burlington and South-Amboy. By Robert Slender, stocking weaver. ; Extracted from the author's journals. ; [Two lines from Horace] (Philadelphia; : Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head, in Market Street., MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]), by Philip Morin Freneau (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Letters on various interesting and important subjects; many of which have appeared in the Aurora. Corrected and much enlarged. / By Robert Slender. O.S.M. ; [Two lines from Pope] (Philadelphia: : Printed for the author. From the press of D. Hogan--and sold at his store, no. 222, South Third-Street, and at the office of the Aurora., December 30, 1799), by Philip Morin Freneau (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A friendly debate; or, A dialogue, between Academicus; and Sawney & Mundungus, two eminent physicians, about some of their late performances. [Five lines of verse from Otway] (Boston: in N.E. : Printed [by Bartholomew Green?], in the year, MDCCXXII [1722]), by Isaac Greenwood, Cotton Mather, Thomas Walter, and Zabdiel Boylston (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Hoop-petticoats arraigned and condemned by the light of nature, and law of God. (Boston: : Printed and sold by James Franklin in Queen-Street., 1722) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A pretty story written in the year of our Lord 2774, by Peter Grievous, Esq, A.B.C.D.E. ; [One line of Latin text] (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by John Dunlap., M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]), by Francis Hopkinson (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A pretty story written in the year of our Lord 2774. By Peter Grievous, Esq; A.B.C.D.E. ; [One line in Latin] (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by John Dunlap., M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]), by Francis Hopkinson (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A pretty story written in the year of our Lord, 2774, by Peter Grievous, Esquire, A.B.C.D.E. ; [One line of Latin text] (Williamsburg [Va.]: : Printed by John Pinkney, for the benefit of Clementina Rind's children., MDCCLXXIV. [1774]), by Francis Hopkinson (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An oration, which might have been delivered to the students in anatomy, on the late rupture between the two schools in this city. (Philadelphia: : Printed by T. Dobson and T. Lang, in Second Street., February, 1789), by Francis Hopkinson (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Androboros A bographical [sic] farce in three acts, viz. The senate, the consistory, and the apotheosis. (Printed at Monoropolis [i.e., New York : by William Bradford], since August, 1714), by Robert Hunter (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A letter from a gentleman in Transilvania to his friend in America giving some account of the late disturbances that have happen'd in that government, with some remarks upon the political revolutions in the magistracy, and the debates that happened about the change. : Humbly inscribed to Counsellor Quondam by his friend Isaac Bickerstaff, of the Middle Temple. : [Eight lines from Swift] (New-York [i.e., Philadelphia], : Printed [by Anthony Armbruster], in the year 1764), by Isaac Hunt (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A looking-glass, for Presbyterians. [Seven lines of verse from Swift] ([Philadelphia] : Printed [by Anthony Armbruster] in the year, MDCCXLIV [i.e., 1764]), by Isaac Hunt (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A humble attempt at scurrility: in imitation of those great masters of the art, the Rev. Dr. S--th; the Rev. Dr. Al----n; the Rev. Mr. Ew-n; the irreverend D.J. D-ve, and the heroic J--n D-------n, Esq; being a full answer to the observations on Mr. H----s's advertisement. / By Jack Retort, student in scurrility. (Quilsylvania [i.e., Philadelphia]: : Printed [by Anthony Armbruster],, 1765), by Isaac Hunt (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The birth, parentage, and education, of Praise-God Barebone. To which is added, an election ballad, or the lamentation of Miss *******. A true but doleful ditty. ([Philadelphia] : Printed [by Andrew Steuart] for Jack Northwester [i.e., Isaac Hunt], at the Sign of the White-Oak in Heart of Oak Street,, MDCCLXVI. [1766]), by Isaac Hunt (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The fall of British tyranny: or, American liberty triumphant. The first campaign. : A tragi-comedy of five acts, as lately planned at the Royal Theatrum Pandemonium, at St. James's. The principal place of action in America. : Publish'd according to act of Parliament. : [Three lines of quotation] (Philadelphia: : Printed by Styner and Cist, in Second-Street, near Arch-Street., MDCCLXXVI. [1776]), by John Leacock (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The fall of British tyranny: or American liberty triumphant. The first campaign. : A tragi-comedy of five acts, as lately planned at the Royal Theatrum Pandemonium at St. James's. The principal place of action in America. : Published according to act of Parliament. : [Three lines of quotation] ([Boston] : Philadelphia, printed: New-England, Boston; reprinted by John Gill, and Powars and Willis, in Queen-Street,, [1776?]), by John Leacock (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A soliloquy. [Five lines of quotations in Latin and English] ([Philadelphia] : Printed [by John Dunlap], in the year 1770), by William Livingston (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The politician out-witted, a comedy, in five acts. : Written in the year 1788. / By an American. ; [Two lines from Falconer's Shipwreck] (New-York: : Printed for the author, by W. Ross, in Broad-Street, and sold by the different booksellers., M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]), by Samuel Low (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Infernal conference: or, Dialogues of devils. By the Listener. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II]. ([Philadelphia] : London, printed. Philadelphia, re-printed: and sold by Stewart & Cochran, no. 34, South Second-street,, M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]), by John Macgowan (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Origin of the whale bone-petticoat. A satyr. : Boston, August 2d. 1714. ([Boston? : s.n., 1714?]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Sans souci. Alias Free and easy: or An evening's peep into a polite circle. An intire [sic] new entertainment. In three acts. (Boston: : Printed by Warden and Russell, M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]), by Mercy Otis Warren (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Songs, comic, satyrical, and sentimental. By George Alexander Stevens. ; [One line from Stevens's Lecture on heads] (Philadelphia: : Printed by R. Bell, Third-Street., M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]), by George Alexander Stevens (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The monster of monsters: a true and faithful narrative of a most remarkable phaenomenon lately seen in this metropolis; to the great surprize and terror of His Majesty's good subjects: humbly dedicated to all the virtuosi of New-England. / By Thomas Thumb, Esq. ; [One line in Latin ; five lines from Milton] ([Boston] : Printed [by Zechariah Fowle], in July 1754), by Thomas Thumb, Samuel Waterhouse, Benjamin Church, Benjamin Brandon, and Jonathan Mayhew (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Tom Paine's jests; being an entirely new and select collection of patriotic bon mots, repartees, anecdotes, epigrams, observations, &c. on political subjects. / By Thomas Paine, and other supporters of the rights of man. ; To which is added, A tribute to the swinish multitude, being a choice collection of patriotic songs. ; [Two lines of quotations] (Philadelphia: : Printed for Mathew Carey, no. 118, Market-Street., M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]), by Thomas Paine, R. Thomson, and Philip Morin Freneau (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A Tribute to the swinish multitude: being a choice collection of patriotic songs. / Collected by the celebrated R. Thomson. ([New York] : London: printed. New-York: re-printed by Samuel Loudon & Son, no. 82, Water-Street., M,DCC,XCV. [1795]), by R. Thomson (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless, shewing what his father and mother said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there; how he took his degree, and went to keeping school; how afterwards he becames a great man and wore a wig; and how any body else may do the same.--The like never before published. : Very proper to be kept in all families. : [Three lines of Latin text] ([New Haven] : Printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green], in the year 1772), by John Trumbull (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless; shewing what his father and mother said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there; how he took his degree, and went to keeping school; how afterwards he became a great man and wore a wig; and how any body else may do the same. : The like never before published. Very proper to be kept in all families. : [Three lines of Latin text] ([New Haven] : Re-printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green], in the year M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]), by John Trumbull (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The progress of dulness, part second: or An essay on the life and character of Dick Hairbrain, of finical memory; being an astronomical calendar, calculated for the meridian of New-York, north latitude, 41^o. West longitude 72^o:30'; but which may serve without material error, for any of the neighboring climates: containing, among other curious and surprizing particulars, Dick's soliloquy on a college-life--a description of a country-fop---receipt to make a gentleman, with the fop's creed and exposition of the Scriptures---Dick's gradual progress from a clown to a coxcomb---his travels, gallantry, and opinion of the ladies---his peripaetia and catastrophe, with the moral and application of the whole. : Published for the universal benefit of mankind. ([New Haven] : Printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green], in the year M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]), by John Trumbull (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The progress of dulness. Part third, and last: sometimes called, The progress of coquetry, or The adventures of Miss Harriet Simper, of the colony of Connecticut. Containing advice of the ladies to Harriet's mother concerning education. Address to parents, Harriet's studies, skill in fashions, scandal and romances; with the consequent occurrences of her life by way of illustration of the moral of the work. : For the use of the ladies and their parents. : [Two lines in Latin from Virgil] (New-Haven; : Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, near the college,, 1773), by John Trumbull (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A new proclamation! By Thomas Gage, whom British frenzy stil'd honourable and excellency, o'er Massachusett's sent to stand here vice-admiral and chief commander ... ([Hartford : Printed by Ebenezer Watson, 1775]), by John Trumbull and Thomas Gage (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The progress of dulness, or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless. By the celebrated author of Mc.Fingal. (Printed at Carlisle [Pa.], : for Archibald Loudon, bookseller, by George Kline,, 1797), by John Trumbull (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The adulateur. A tragedy, as it is now acted in Upper Servia. : [Six lines from Cato] (Boston: : [s.n.] Printed and sold at the new printing-office near Concert-Hall., MDCCLXXIII. [1773]), by Mercy Otis Warren (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The group; as lately acted, and to be re-acted to the wonder of all superior intelligences, nigh head-quarters at Amboyne. : The author has thought proper to borrow the following spirited lines from a late celebrated poet, and offer to the public by way of prologue, which cannot fail of pleasing at this crisis. : [Twelve lines of verse] (Boston: : Printed and sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street., 1775), by Mercy Otis Warren (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The group, a farce: as lately acted, and to be re-acted, to the wonder of all superior intelligences; nigh head quarters, at Amboyne. : In two acts. ([Philadelphia] : Jamaica, printed; Philadelphia, reprinted; by James Humphreys, Junior, in Front-Street., M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]), by Mercy Otis Warren (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The motley assembly, a farce. : Published for the entertainment of the curious. (Boston: : Printed and sold by Nathaniel Coverly, in Newbury-Street,, M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]), by Mercy Otis Warren (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The churches quarrel espoused, or, A reply in satyre, to certain proposals made, in answer to this question, What further steps are to be taken, that the councils may have due constitution and efficacy in supporting, preserving and well ordering the interest of the churches in the country? [Five lines of quotations] ([New York] : Printed and sold by William Bradford in N. York,, 1713), by John Wise (HTML at Evans TCP)

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