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• A Bad Boy's First Reader (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co., c1881), by Frank Bellew (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1878), by William Cowper, illust. by Randolph Caldecott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Diverting History of John Gilpin: Shewing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, and Came Safe Home Again (New York et al.: Routledge and Sons, ca. 1890), by William Cowper, illust. by H. Rosa (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Little Panjandrum's Dodo (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1899), by G. E. Farrow, illust. by Alan Wright (page images at Florida)
• Little Sarah (Boston: W. J. Reynolds and Co., ca. 1851) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• New Waggings of Old Tales (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1888), by John Kendrick Bangs and Frank Dempster Sherman, illust. by Oliver Herford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The World Turned Upside Down (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1900), by Ellen C. Clayton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Adventures of Matty Marvelous (London: J. L. Marks, ca. 1857) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Wallypug in London (London: Methuen and Co., 1898), by G. E. Farrow, illust. by Alan Wright
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• Brayhard: The Strange Adventures of One Ass and Seven Champions (ca. 1890), by Edmund Downey, illust. by Harry Furniss (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sugar and Spice: Comical Tales Comically Dressed, by James Johnson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Animal Land, Where There Are No People (second edition; London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1897), by Sybil Corbet and Katharine Corbet, contrib. by Andrew Lang (page images at ufl.edu)
• The Boston Tea Party, December 1773 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1882), by Josephine Pollard, illust. by H. W. McVickar and Hugh McVickar
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• Plish and Plum (Boston: Roberts Bros., ca. 1883), by Wilhelm Busch, trans. by Charles T. Brooks (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Life on the farm; in amusing rhyme. (New York : Kiggins & Kellogg, 123 & 125 William St., [between 1856 and 1866?]), by William Barritt and William Howland, contrib. by Kiggins & Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures of Matty Marvelous. (London : J.L. Marks, [between 1835 and 1857]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Council of dogs : illustrated with suitable engravings. (Philadelphia : Published by Johnson & Warner, No. 147, Market-Street, 1809 [i.e. 1821]), by printer Brown & Merritt, contrib. by Benjamin Warner and Johnson & Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comic history of the United States : pictorial history of the United States, in which many facts are given, not to be found in any other book / (New York: : Leavitt & Allen, 1861), by Willis P. Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jingle jokes for little folks. ([Malvern, Pa.] : Charles E. Hires Co., c1901), by H.A. Thomas & Wylie. pbl and Charles E. Hires Company. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alice's adventures in Wonderland ; and, Through the looking-glass / (Boston : Lothrop, c1898), by Lewis Carroll and Lothrop Publishing Company. pbl, illust. by John Tenniel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The surprising adventures of Sir Toady Lion : with those of General Napoleon Smith : an improving history for old boys, young boys, good boys, bad boys, big boys, little boys, cow boys, and tom-boys / (London : Gardner, Darton, 1897), by S. R. Crockett, Hanson and Co. prt Ballantyne, and Darton & Co. pbl Wells Gardner, illust. by Gordon Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Munchausen; being a true account of some of the recent adventures beyond the Styx of the late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder, as originally reported for the Sunday edition of the Gehenna Gazette by its special interviewer the late Mr. Ananias formerly of Jerusalem and now first transcribed from the columns of that journal (Boston, Noyes, Platt & company, 1901), by John Kendrick Bangs, Geo. H. Walker & Co. ltg pop, Riggs Printing & Publishing Company. prt, and Platt & Company. pbl Noyes, illust. by Peter Newell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhymes and jingles for little children / (New York : McLoughlin Brothers., [c1866]), by John Karst, Vincent Dill, and Edward P. Cogger, contrib. by inc McLoughlin Bros., illust. by Justin H. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little citizens : the humours of school life / (New York : McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904), by Myra Kelly, William Dodge Stevens, W. D. Stevens, McClure Press. prt, and Phillips & Co. pbl McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there, (New York, Boston, T. Y. Crowell & co., [c1893]), by Lewis Carroll, Berwick & Smith. prt, J.S. Cushing & Co. prt, Norwood Press. prt, and Thomas Y. Crowell Company. pbl, illust. by John Tenniel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Queer people with wings and stings and their kweer kapers. (Philadelphia, Hubbard Brothers, c1888), by Palmer Cox, Palmer Cox, and Hubbard Bros. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alice's adventures in Wonderland / (Chicago, New York, London : Rand, McNally & company, [c1902]), by Lewis Carroll, Florence. edt Milner, Florence Milner, and Rand McNally and Company. pbl, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plupy "the real boy" (Boston, R.G. Badger, 1911), by Henry A. Shute, Richard G. pbl Badger, Warren Ayres Rockwell, and Gorham Press. pbl prt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Snickerty Nick / (New York : Moffat, Yard, [c1919]), by Julia Ellsworth Ford, Arthur Rackham, Witter Bynner, Witter Bynner, and Yard and Company. pbl Moffat, illust. by Arthur Rackham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The merry maker / (Boston : Hall and Locke Company, c1902), by Joel Chandler Harris, contrib. by Janice Dohm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her seven wonderful cats : a humorous tale /, by John Ruskin, Richard Scrafton Sharpe, and Mrs Pearson, illust. by Kate Greenaway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts for those who think : 1000 graded memory gems / (Lansing, Mich. : H.R. Pattengill, 1890), by H. R. Pattengill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts for those who think. 1,000 graded memory gems. (Lansing, Mich., H.R. Pattengill, 1902), by H. R. Pattengill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art in the nursery : pictures for baby to draw, and pictures for baby to laugh at. (Boston : D. Lothrop & Co., ©1879), illust. by J. G. Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boston tea party, December 1773; (New York, Dodd, Mead & company, [c1882]), by H. W. McVickar, Josephine Pollard, Josephine Pollard, and Mead & Company. pbl Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her seven wonderful cats : a humorous tale /, by John Ruskin, Richard Scrafton Sharpe, and Mrs Pearson, illust. by Kate Greenaway (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hole Book, by Peter Newell (Gutenberg ebook)
• More About Teddy B. and Teddy G., the Roosevelt Bears: Being Volume Two Depicting Their Further Travels and Adventures, by Seymour Eaton, illust. by R. K. Culver (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Wallypug of Why, by G. E. Farrow, illust. by Dorothy Furniss and Harry Furniss (Gutenberg ebook)
• Life on the Farm; in Amusing Rhyme (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Adventures of Jimmy Brown, by W. L. Alden, illust. by William Ludwell Sheppard (Gutenberg ebook)
• Artful Anticks, by Oliver Herford (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History, by Myrtle Reed, illust. by Peter Newell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bee: The Princess of the Dwarfs, by Anatole France, trans. by Peter Wright, illust. by Charles Robinson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lilliput Lyrics, by W. B. Rands, ed. by R. Brimley Johnson, illust. by Charles Robinson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Golden-Breasted Kootoo, and Other Stories, by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, illust. by Edmund H. Garrett (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Vliegende Kogel (in Dutch), by Jan Rinke (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jack and Jill and Old Dame Gill (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jack and the Bean-Stalk: English Hexameters, by Hallam Tennyson Tennyson, illust. by Randolph Caldecott (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jack the Giant Killer, by Percival Leigh, illust. by John Leech (Gutenberg ebook)
• Weggeloopen! (in Dutch), by James Buckland and Louis Desnoyers, trans. by Mevr Donath-van der Scheer, illust. by Cecil Aldin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion with Those of General Napoleon Smith: An Improving History for Old Boys, Young Boys, Good Boys, Bad Boys, Big Boys, Little Boys, Cow Boys, and Tom-Boys, by S. R. Crockett, illust. by Gordon Browne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Plish and Plum, by Wilhelm Busch, trans. by Charles Timothy Brooks (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch: An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza, by S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald, illust. by Arthur Rackham (Gutenberg ebook)
• König Nußknacker und der arme Reinhold: Ein Kindermährchen in Bildern (in German), by Heinrich Hoffmann (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1, by E. W. Cole (Gutenberg ebook)
• Funny Little Socks: Being the Fourth Book, by Sarah L. Barrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Royal Picture Alphabet, by John Leighton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too, by Alfred Elwes, illust. by Harrison Weir (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Last of the Peterkins: With Others of Their Kin, by Lucretia P. Hale (Gutenberg ebook)
• Editha's burglar (Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Company, 1888), by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Avery & Co Rand, illust. by Henry Sandham (page images at Florida)
• A Bad boy's first reader (New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1881), by Frank Bellew, illust. by Frank Bellew (page images at Florida)
• The Adventures of a bear, and a great bear too (London, New York: George Routledge and Co., 1857), by Alfred Elwes, illust. by Harrison Weir, John Greenaway, Abraham John Mason, William Wright, William Measom, and James Davis Cooper (page images at Florida)
• Humpty Dumpty (New York: A. J. Fisher, c1869) (page images at Florida)
• Daddy's makings (London: Dean & Son, 1864), by Daddy Dumkins (page images at Florida)
• Upside down, or, Turnover traits (London: Griffith and Farran, 1868), by Tom Hood, illust. by William McConnell (page images at Florida)
• The Diverting history of John Gilpin (London: Longmans, Green and Co., c1868), by William Cowper, illust. by Henry Fitzcook and J. C Whymper (page images at Florida)
• The adventures of a bear and a great bear too (London: Addey and Co., 1853), by Alfred Elwes, Harrison Weir, John Greenaway, Abraham John Mason, William Wright, George Barclay, William Measom, J. Cooper, Bone & Son, and Addey and Co (page images at Florida)
• Right is might, and other sketches (New York: Lamport, Blakeman & Law, 1854), by Samuel G. Goodrich, Blakeman & Law Lamport, and Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry (page images at Florida)
• Little love Blessingall (Boston: Shepard, Clark, and Brown, 1859), by George Coolidge, Clark and Brown Shepard, and Damrell & Moore (page images at Florida)
• Lightsome and the little golden lady (London: Griffith and Farran, 1867), by Charles H. Bennett (page images at Florida)
• My mother (London, New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1857), by R. M. Ballantyne and Ann Taylor, illust. by E Young (page images at Florida)
• Rummical rhymes (London: Dean & Son, 1866), illust. by J. V Barret (page images at Florida)
• Dame Perkins and her grey mare, or, The mount for market (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866), by Lindon Meadows, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne (page images at Florida)
• The favourite holiday book for boys (1876), illust. by Edmund Evans, James Davis Cooper, Charles H Ross, Walter Crane, and William Brunton (page images at Florida)
• Laugh & grow wise (London: Griffith and Farran, c1865) (page images at Florida)
• Comical creatures (London, Edinburgh, New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1868), illust. by Harrison Weir and Henry Vizetelly (page images at Florida)
• Philosophy in sport made science in earnest (London: John Murray, 1853), by John Ayrton Paris, illust. by George Cruikshank and J. Cooper (page images at Florida)
• The Diverting history of John Gilpin (London: William Tegg, 1865), by William Cowper (page images at Florida)
• "Young troublesome, or, Master Jacky's holidays (London: Bradbury and Evans, [1876?]), by John Leech (page images at Florida)
• The nine lives of a cat (London: Griffith and Farran, 1860), by Charles H. Bennett (page images at Florida)
• Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking-glass (New York: Macmillan and Co., 1885), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by John Tenniel (page images at Florida)
• Johnny's visit to the Eliots (Boston: Rockwell & Churchill, 1865), by Susan Coolidge (page images at Florida)
• Through the looking glass (London: Macmillan and Co., 1872), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by John Tenniel and Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
• Merry conceits and whimsical rhymes (London: George Routledge & Sons, c1865), by Charles H Ross (page images at Florida)
• The decorative sisters (New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Co., n.d.), by Josephine Pollard, illust. by Walter Satterlee (page images at Florida)
• Fables for children young and old in humorous verse (London: E. Churton, 1848), by W. Edwards Staite, illust. by T. H Jones (page images at Florida)
• Little Sarah (Boston: W.J. Reynolds & Co., 1851) (page images at Florida)
• The Boston tea party, December 1773 (New York (755 Broadway): Dodd, Mead & Company, n.d.), by Josephine Pollard, illust. by H. W McVickar (page images at Florida)
• Plish and Plum (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883, c1882), by Wilhelm Busch, trans. by Charles Timothy Brooks (page images at Florida)
• Happy-thought hall (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872), by F. C. Burnand, illust. by F. C. Burnand (page images at Florida)
• The tall student (Boston: Roberts Brothers, n.d.), by Wilhelm Busch, trans. by Charles Timothy Brooks (page images at Florida)
• The little old woman (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1875) (page images at Florida)
• Nonsense songs, stories, botany, and alphabets (London: Robert John Bush, 1871), by Edward Lear, illust. by Edward Lear (page images at Florida)
• Sage stuffing for green goslings, or, Saws for the goose and saws for the gander (London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1872), by Hugh Rowley and Dalziel Brothers, illust. by Hugh Rowley (page images at Florida)
• Silhouettes (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1878), by Frederick S. Church (page images at Florida)
• Silhouettes, first series (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1878), by Frederick S. Church (page images at Florida)
• Nonsense songs, stories, botany, and alphabets (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871), by Edward Lear and Avery Rand, illust. by Edward Lear (page images at Florida)
• Sugar and spice (London: Dean & Son, 1878), by James Johnson (page images at Florida)
• Olga's dream (London: Skeffington & Son, 1892), by Emily Underdown and Norley Chester, illust. by Harry Furniss and Irving Montagu (page images at Florida)
• The owl & the pussy-cat (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1892), by Edward Lear, illust. by William Foster (page images at Florida)
• The rose and the ring, or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1891), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at Florida)
• The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade) (New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1891), by Mark Twain, illust. by E. W. Kemble (page images at Florida)
• Dame Trot and her comical cat (New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1890) (page images at Florida)
• The strange story of Mr. Pickelbone ([S.l: s.n.], n.d.), by Gertrude, illust. by Photo Engraving Co (page images at Florida)
• Through the looking-glass (New York and Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1893), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by John Tenniel (page images at Florida)
• Tom Sawyer abroad (London: Chatto & Windus, 1894), by Mark Twain and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress), illust. by Daniel Carter Beard (page images at Florida)
• Samantha among the colored folks (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, n.d.), by Marietta Holley, illust. by E. W. Kemble (page images at Florida)
• The real adventures of Robinson Crusoe (London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1893), by F. C. Burnand and Agnew and Co Bradbury, illust. by Linley Sambourne (page images at Florida)
• The Lively city o' Ligg (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, c1899), by Gelett Burgess, illust. by Harvey Ellis (page images at Florida)
• Acrobatic animals (New York: R.H. Russell, n.d.), by Frank Ver Beck (page images at Florida)
• The hatchet throwers (London: John Camden Hotten, 1866), by James Greenwood, Ernest Henry Griset, Jas Wade, and John Camden Hotten (page images at Florida)
• Frölich's picture book (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868), by P.-J. Stahl, illust. by Lorenz Frølich (page images at Florida)
• The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen (London: William Tegg, 1869), by William Tegg, George Cruikshank, and Watson & Hazell (page images at Florida)
• The Fireside picture-alphabet (Boston: Mayhew & Baker, 1858), illust. by John Andrew (page images at Florida)
• The wonderful adventures of the little man & his little gun (Boston: Mayhew and Baker, 1858), by unknown, illust. by Morte (page images at Florida)
• Philosophy in sport made science in earnest (New York: Clark, Austin & Smith, 1853), by John Ayrton Paris, illust. by George Cruikshank and Gilbert & Gihon (page images at Florida)
• The hunting of the snark (London: Macmillan and Co., 1876), by Lewis Carroll, illust. by Henry Holiday and Joseph Swain (page images at Florida)
• The world turned upside down (London: Dean & Son, 1875), by Ellen C. Clayton (page images at Florida)
• A picture story-book (London: George Routledge and Sons., 1873), illust. by Walter George Mason (page images at Florida)
• The adventures of a dog, and a good dog too (London and New York: George Routledge and Co., 1857), by Alfred Elwes and Harrison Weir, illust. by John Greenaway, Abraham John Mason, William Wright, and James Davis Cooper (page images at Florida)
• Art in the nursery (Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, n.d.), illust. by J. G Francis (page images at Florida)
• The horkey (London: Macmillan and Co., n.d.), by Robert Bloomfield and F. C. Burnand, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at Florida)
• The king & the abbot and other stories (London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1883) (page images at Florida)
• Recollections of Auton house (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889), by Augustus Hoppin, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and H.O. Houghton & Company (page images at Florida)
• Editha's burglar (New York and Boston: H.M. Caldwell Co., n.d.), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (page images at Florida)
• Hop-o'my-thumb Jack and the bean-stalk Cinderella Puss in Boots (London: George Bell and Sons, 1885), by George Cruikshank (page images at Florida)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court (New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1891), by Mark Twain, illust. by Daniel Carter Beard (page images at Florida)
• The bull calf and other tales (London: John C. Nimmo, 1892), by A. B. Frost (page images at Florida)
• Guess me (London: Dean and Son, 1895), ed. by Frederick D'Arros Planche, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at Florida)
• The children's fairy history of England (New York: David Stott, 1892), by Forbes E Winslow (page images at Florida)
• The surprising adventures of Sir Toady Lion with those of General Napoleon Smith (London: Gardner, Darton and Co., 1897), by S. R Crockett, illust. by Gordon Browne (page images at Florida)
• Zig zag fables (London: Gardner, Darton & Co., 1897), by J. A Shepherd (page images at Florida)
• The surprising adventures of Sir Toady Lion with those of General Napoleon Smith (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1897), by S. R Crockett and Gordon Browne (page images at Florida)
• Simple Simon (New York: McLoughlin Bro's, 1897) (page images at Florida)
• The diverting history of John Gilpin (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., n.d.), by William Cowper, ed. by Ernest Rhys, illust. by C. E. Brock (page images at Florida)
• Sundown songs (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899), by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and Mass.) Roberts Brothers (Boston (page images at Florida)
• Struwel Peter (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1898) (page images at Florida)
• Dr Jollyboy's ABC (London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1898), by Gordon Browne (page images at Florida)
• Frolic and fun for daughter and son (Boston: B. B. Russell, 1897), by Isabel Allardyce and B. B Russell (page images at Florida)
• Sun-shine for dull days (New York: American News Company, 1898) (page images at Florida)
• Phil May's ABC (London: Leadenhall Press, 1897), by Phil May (page images at Florida)

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