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• Listen to the mocking bird : satiric songs to tunes you know. (Mockingbird Press, 1973), by Tuli Kupferberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Felix Farley, rhymes, : Latin and English, (Printed and published by J.M. Gutch, at the office of Felix Farley's Bristol Journal., 1826), by John Eagles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The condottier, a poem. Philadelphia, a satire. (published for the author, by M. Thomas. James Maxwell, printer, 1821), by John C. M'Call (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the picturesque (Boston : Roberts Brothers, 1866., 1866), by William Combe and Alfred Crowquill (page images at HathiTrust)
• I︠U︡moristicheskīi︠a︡ stikhotvorenīi︠a︡ Oblichitelʹnago Poėta (Temnago Chelovi︠e︡ka) (880-05 Sanktpeterburgʺ : Izdanīe Tipografīi V. Golovina, 1863-1864., 1863), by D. D. Minaevʺ and Yudin Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original drawings by George Cruikshank (1836), by George Cruikshank, John David Drummond Perth, Post-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), and Root & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Satire (s.n.], 1770), by Salvatore Rosa, Anton Maria Salvini, and Giovanni Canocchi (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'Esculapédie, poëme divisé en huit chants ([s.n.], 1757), by Colomb de Seillans and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den jaare MDCCXX : zynde een verzameling van alle de conditien en projecten van de opgeregte compagnien van assurantie, navigatie, commercie, &c. in Nederland, zo wel die in gebruik zyn gebragt, als die door de h. staten van eenige provintien zyn verworpen : als meede konst-plaaten, comedien en gedigten ... : gedrukt tot waarshouwinge voor de nakomelingen, in 't noodlottige jaar, voor veel zotte en wyze, 1720. (s.n., 1720) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Wild Party (New York: Covici Friede, 1929), by Joseph Moncure March (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Wild Party (London: M. Secker, 1928), by Joseph Moncure March (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Truth (first and second editions, 1831 and 1832), by William Joseph Snelling (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• Summer sketches (Stanford and Delisser, 1858), by James W. Gerard and Stanford and Delisser (page images at HathiTrust)

• London; and The Vanity of Human Wishes: With Notes, Historical and Biographical, and a Glossary (sixth edition (uses the 1755 Vanity text); London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1890), by Samuel Johnson, ed. by I. P. Fleming (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), by Samuel Johnson (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Academia: or, The Humours of the University of Oxford in Burlesque Verse (London: Randal Taylor, 1691), by Alicia D'Anvers (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co., 1812), by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Satires, and other poems (G. Willis, 1838), by Joseph Hall and Peter Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems on affairs of State; Augustan satirical verse, 1660-1714. (Yale University Press, 1963), by George deForest Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
• The imperial epistle ; and The shade of Alexander Pope (Printed by H. Maxwell, for A. Dickins, bookseller, North Second street, opposite Christ-Church., 1800), by Thomas James Mathias, Asbury Dickins, and Hugh Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rede me and be nott wrothe, for I saye no thinge but trothe. (A. Constable and Co., 1895), by William Roy, Edward Arber, and Jerome Barlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The satires of Cynicus. (Cynicus Publishing, and Simpkin, Marshall Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1982), by Cynicus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "'Arry" ballads : from "Punch" (London : Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [1892], 1892), by E. J. Milliken, George Du Maurier, Charles Keene, John Leech, and Agnew and Co Bradbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ladies exercise at tea : with the rise and progress therof, or the metamorphosis of a set of ladies into a set of china tea-cups. (Printed by Rich. Dickson and reprinted in Corke, 1729) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blasphemy as old as the creation : or, The Newgate divine : a satyr address'd to the modern advocates of irreligion, prophaneness, and infidelity (by George Faulkner, at the pamphlet-shop in Essex-Street, where all manner of pamphlets are sold and printing work done reasonably, 1730), by Thomas Newcomb and George Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A satyr. In the manner of Persius : in a dialogue between the poet and his friend (Printed, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1730), by John Hervey Hervey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verses address'd to the imitator of the first satire of the second book of Horace (Printed for A. Dodd ;, 1733), by Mary Wortley Montagu, Christopher Dickson, and John Hervey Hervey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first satire of the second book of Horace, imitated : in a dialogue between Alexander Pope, of Twickenham, in Com. Midd. Esq ; on the one part, and his learned council on the other. (by and for George Faulkner, in Essex-Street, opposite to the Bridge, 1733), by Alexander Pope, George Faulkner, and Horace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Belly duel (s.n.], 1730), by Jonathan Swift (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vanella in the straw : a poem inscrib'd to a certain lady in St. James's-Street. (Printed for W. James, without Temple-Bar; and sold by the booksellers and pamphlet-sellers of London and Westminister, 1732) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pursuits of literature : a satirical poem in four dialogues, with notes. (Printed by H. Maxwell, for J. Nancrede, Boston, and A. Dickins, and J. Ormrod, Philadelphia, 1800), by Thomas James Mathias and American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pursuits of literature : a satirical poem in four dialogues, with notes. (Printed for T. Becket, 1801), by Thomas James Mathias, Thomas Becket, and Jaques and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love in the Suds: a Town Eclogue.: Being the Lamentation of Roscius for the Loss of His Nyky., by W. Kenrick (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Scribleriad, and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue, by John Hervey Hervey, ed. by James Sambrook (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Man of Taste, by James Bramston, contrib. by F. P. Lock (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Answer to unconstant William, or, The Young-man's resolution to pay the young lasses in their own coin. ([London] : Printed for C. Bates, next door to the Crown-Tavern in West-Smithfield., [ca. 1680]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Bare-faced Tories: A new song. To the tune of Robbin-Goodfellow. (London: : Printed for H. Jones, 1682) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Batchelor's triumph: or, The single-man's happiness. ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball, near the Hospital-gate in West-Smithfield, [between 1672 and 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Amorous shepherd, and coy shepherdess, or, An answer to Amintas and Claudia: ([London] : Printed for J. Clarke at the Harp and Bible in West-Smithfield, [1680?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Augusta's restoration from her city-calenture,: by an emittick pill of quo warranto from Westminster. ([London] : Printed for Peter Trimme, 1683) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Guizot collection of pamphlets. v. 4. Pamphlets politiques. 1820-1828 (A. Dupont et cie, 1827), by Joseph Méry and Barthélemy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Procès du Fils de l'homme, avec la défense en vers prononcée à l'audience du 29 Juillet 1829 (A.J. Denain, 1829), by Barthélemy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la Calotte. (de l'Imprimerie calotine, 1752), by Jean Aymon, M. l'abbé Desfontaines, Guillaume Plantavit de La Pause, and Régiment de la calotte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Polymachie des marmitons (Salomon, 1851), by Conrad Badius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observateur au muséum (Se trouve Chez Gauthier, rue Saint-Jacques-la-Boucherie, No. 6, 1802) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revue ([publisher not identified], 1804), by Joseph Treneuil, L.-G.-J.-M. Bénaben, N.-Étienne Sens, and Bernard Antoine Tajan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Satura : Grillen und Schwänke (C. Reissner, 1884), by Ludwig Fulda (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fipps, der Affe (F. Bassermann, 1880), by Wilhelm Busch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plish und Plum (Bassermann, 1882), by Wilhelm Busch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abenteuer eines-Junggesellen (Bassermann, 1881), by Wilhelm Busch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Ring (in German), by Heinrich Wittenweiler, ed. by Ludwig Bechstein, contrib. by Adelbert von Keller (Gutenberg ebook)

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