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• The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz, illust. by Wallace Goldsmith
  • illustrated HTML at aaaugh.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Devil's Dictionary (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1911), by Ambrose Bierce (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Devil's Dictionary (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1911), by Ambrose Bierce
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at ambrosebierce.org

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

• The Century Vocabulary Builder, by Garland Greever and Joseph M. Bachelor (Gutenberg text)

• The Teacher's Word Book of 30,000 Words (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, c1944), by Edward L. Thorndike and Irving Lorge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Teacher's Word Book (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1921), by Edward L. Thorndike (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Vocabulary of Soviet Society and Culture: A Selected Guide to Russian Words, Idioms, and Expressions of the Post-Stalin Era, 1953-1991 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Irina H. Corten (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Few Practical Suggestions (Society for Pure English Tract #3; 1920), by Logan Pearsall Smith (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Boucher's Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words: A Supplement to the Dictionaries of the English Language, Particularly Those of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Webster (nothing further published after "Blade"; London: Printed for Black, Young, and Young, 1832-1833), by Jonathan Boucher, ed. by Joseph Hunter and Joseph Stevenson, contrib. by J. Odell
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, ed. by Catherine E. Snow, M. Susan Burns, and Peg Griffin (HTML and page images at NAP)

• The Devil's Dictionary (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1911), by Ambrose Bierce (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Devil's Dictionary (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1911), by Ambrose Bierce
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at ambrosebierce.org

• The Devil's Dictionary (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1911), by Ambrose Bierce (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Devil's Dictionary (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1911), by Ambrose Bierce
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at ambrosebierce.org
• The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz, illust. by Wallace Goldsmith
  • illustrated HTML at aaaugh.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Zenarchy, by Kerry W. Thornley (HTML at impropaganda.net)

• Waiting for Foucault, Still (electronic 4th edition; Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2002), by Marshall Sahlins (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

• The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home (New York: J. F. Taylor and Co., 1901), by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

• The Great Inquiry ("only authorised version"; London: Duckworth and Co., 1903), by Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Mystic Spring, and Other Tales of Western Life (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1904), by David Williams Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Phoenixiana: or, Sketches and Burlesques, by George Horatio Derby (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires on the Follies of the Day, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)

• Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Adrienne Laskier Martin (HTML at UC Press)

• The Great Inquiry ("only authorised version"; London: Duckworth and Co., 1903), by Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Laura Kendrick (HTML at UC Press)

• The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home (New York: J. F. Taylor and Co., 1901), by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Apocolocyntosis, by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, trans. by W. H. D. Rouse (Gutenberg text)
• Selected Essays of Seneca, and the Satire on the Deification of Claudius (Latin texts and English notes; New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, ed. by Allan Perley Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, by Petronius Arbiter, trans. by W. C. Firebaugh, contrib. by François Nodot, José Marchena, and Jusepe Antonio González de Salas (Gutenberg text)

• The New Hacker's Dictionary (online version, aka the Jargon File), ed. by Eric S. Raymond (HTML with commentary at catb.org)

• La Civilité (Puérile et Honnête) Expliquée par l'Oncle Eugène (in French; Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit and Co., ca. 1887), by Eugène Plon, illust. by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org

• 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
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

• Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2003), ed. by Peter Narváez (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Eating in Two or Three Languages (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1919), by Irvin S. Cobb, illust. by Herbert Johnson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 1001 Ways To Beat The Draft (New York: Oliver Layton Press, c1966), by Tuli Kupferberg and Robert Bashlow (page images at HathiTrust)

• Down the River: or, Practical Lessons Under the Code Duello (New York: E. J. Hale and Son, 1874), by George W. Hooper
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• 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)

• Microcosmographia Academica: Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician (c1908), by Francis Macdonald Cornford (HTML at Murray State)

• The New Hacker's Dictionary (online version, aka the Jargon File), ed. by Eric S. Raymond (HTML with commentary at catb.org)

• The History of England, From the Reign of Henry the 4th to the Death of Charles the 1st, By a Partial, Prejudiced, and Ignorant Historian (original manuscript version), by Jane Austen (page images and HTML with commentary at bl.uk)

• Perfect Behavior: A Parody Outline of Etiquette, by Donald Ogden Stewart, illust. by Ralph Barton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Fame in the 20th Century (electronic edition, with complete text and some illustrations of print edition; 2010), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)

• Foxy Grandpa and His Boys: Fun on the Farm (Chicago: M. A. Donohue, c1908), illust. by Bunny (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Abandoned Farmers: His Humorous Account of a Retreat from the City to the Farm, by Irvin S. Cobb (Gutenberg text)

• Funny Stories About the Ford (2 volumes; Hamilton, OH: Presto Pub. Co., c1915), by Ring Lardner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Futurist Fifteen: An Old Moore or Less Accurate Forecast of Certain Events in the Year 1915 (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1915), by Barry Pain, contrib. by Alfred Leete (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Capitalist, or, the City of Fort Worth: A Parody on the Mikado (Fort Worth, TX: Fort Worth Board of Trade, c1888), by Ed. J. Smith (page images at Portal to Texas History)

• Campi Golfarii Romae Antiquae (reprint, with new material at front and back of book; 1935), by Payson Sibley Wild and Bert Leston Taylor, ed. by Paul Valentine Bacon, contrib. by Laurence Conger Woodworth and F. C. Eastman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Campi Golfarii Romae Antiquae (in Latin and English; Chicago: Privately printed for the Brothers of the Book, 1912), by Payson Sibley Wild and Bert Leston Taylor, ed. by Laurence Conger Woodworth
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Colonel Bogey's Sketch Book (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897), by R. André (PDF (enter the title of the book to get to the PDF) at USGA Museum)

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