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Insults: A Practical Anthology of Scathing Remarks and Acid Portraits (New York: Greystone Press, c1941), by Max J. Herzberg (page images at HathiTrust)
A Whimsey Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), ed. by Carolyn Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)
Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers: A New Collection of Humorous Stories and Anecdotes (3 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by William Patten
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
Max and Maurice: A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899), by Wilhelm Busch, trans. by Charles T. Brooks (PDF page images at MSU)
Nights with Uncle Remus : myths and legends of the old plantation (Houghton Mifflin, 1911), by Joel Chandler Harris and Janice Dohm (page images at HathiTrust)
Medical muse (I.E. Booth, 1895), by John F. B. Lillard (page images at HathiTrust)
The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical, in prose and verse. (Printed for S. Briscoe, 1720), by Thomas Brown, Ernest Hamilton Sharp, Horace, Martial, Pope Pius II, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Aristaenetus, and James Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
Books and bookmen, and other essays (Hodder & Stoughton, George H. Doran, 1912), by Ian Maclaren (page images at HathiTrust)
The cyclopædia of wit and humor : containing choice and characteristic selections from the writings of the most eminent humorists of America, Ireland, Scotland, and England ... (D. Appleton & co., 1859), by William E. Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor relations (Harper, 1920), by Compton Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters and social aims (James R. Osgood, 1876), by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Huntington Dickinson, Emily Dickinson, Frederic Alcott Pratt, Frederic Wolsey Pratt, and Amos Bronson Alcott (page images at HathiTrust)
Der Humor bei Rembrandt (J. H. E. Heitz, 1909), by Eugen Rentsch (page images at HathiTrust)
Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) (J. W. Arrowsmith ;, 1889), by Jerome K. Jerome and A. Frederics (page images at HathiTrust)
Studies in jocular literature. A popular subject more closely considered. (E. Stock, 1890), by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
A whimsey anthology (C. Scribner's sons, 1906), by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
Artemus Ward : his book (Carleton, 1862), by Artemus Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
The maxims of Noah. Derived from his experience with women both before and after the flood as given in counsel to his son Japhet (Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1913), by Gelett Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
Literature and life. (J. R. Osgood, 1871), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
Facetiae cantabrigienses: consisting of anecdotes, smart sayings, satirics, retorts, &c. &c., by or relating to celebrated Cantabs (Printed for W. Cole, 1825), by Richard Gooch (page images at HathiTrust)
An outline of humor; being a true chronicle from prehistoric ages to the twentieth century (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1923), by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ṣawt al-hizār wa-zayk al-ʻadhār (Maṭbaʻat al-Tamadun, 1903), by Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Wādī Abū al-Hudá al-Ṣayyādī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mr. Dooley's philosophy (R.H. Russell, 1900), by Finley Peter Dunne, Frederick Burr Opper, E. W. Kemble, and William Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust)
Balth. Bonifacii rhodigini Historia ludicra. (typis et ære Joannis Mommarti, 1656), by Baldassarre Bonifacio (page images at HathiTrust)
Why the world laughs (London, 1912), by Charles Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor. A choice collection (S.C. Griggs and Company, 1882), by Marshall Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
Mark Twain's library of humor ... (Harper & brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
American Æsop; negro and other humor (The Jordan & More press, 1926), by William Pickens (page images at HathiTrust)
Augustin Tüngers Facetiæ (Litterarischer Verein in Stuttgart, 1874), by Augustin Tünger and Adelbert von Keller (page images at HathiTrust)
Michael Lindeners Rastbüchlein und Katzipori (Litterarischer verein in Stuttgart, 1883), by Michael Lindener and Franz Lichtenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
Zur Geschichte der lateinischen Facetiensammlungen des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts (Mayer & Mu ller, 1912), by Konrad Vollert (page images at HathiTrust)
Lectures on subjects connected with literature and life (Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Edwin Percy Whipple and Emily Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Problem des komischen in seiner Geschichtlichen Entwicklung (A. Stein, 1904), by Franz Jacob Balthasar Jahn (page images at HathiTrust)
The library of wit and humor, prose and poetry, selected from the literature of all times and nations (The Gebbie Publishing Co., Limited, 1884), by Ainsworth Rand Spofford and Rufus E. Shapley (page images at HathiTrust)
Studies in literature (G. P. Putnam's sons., 1883), by T. M. Coan, Thomas Wright, Matthew Arnold, George Thomas Stokes, J. H. Shorthouse, and Franklin Leifchild (page images at HathiTrust)
The physiology of the London medical student, and curiosities of medical experience (Carey and Hart, 1845), by Albert Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
Facezie di Lodovico Carbone ferrarese (R. Giusti, 1900), by Ludovico Carbone and Abd-el-Kader Salza (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Lectures on subjects connected with literature and life. (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
Sir Richard Blackmore's Essay upon wit (1716) and Joseph Addison's Freeholder, no. 45 (1716) ([Los Angeles], 1946), by Richard Blackmore (page images at HathiTrust)
Hints from squints; a book of fun and fodder, gumption and gimp, pedogogy and philanthropy, morals and manners ([s.n.], 1905), by H. R. Pattengill (page images at HathiTrust)
Lectures on subjects connected with literature and life. (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
The wit of women (Funk & Wagnalls, 1885), by Kate Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor of the age : comprising wit, humor, pathos, ridicule, satires, dialects, puns, conundrums, riddles, charades, jokes and magic (Star Publishing House, 1901), by Melville D. Landon (page images at HathiTrust)
The wit of women (Funk & Wagnalls, 1885), by Kate Sanborn, Julia Thompson von Stosch Schayer, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
Malice in Kulturland (The Car Illustrated, 1914), by Horace Wyatt and W. Tell (page images at HathiTrust)
Om begrebet humor hos Søren Kierkegaard; en filosofisk afhandling (A. Busck, 1925), by Julius Schousboe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Facezie. (A.F. Formiggini, 1923), by Lodovico Domenichi and Giovanni Fabris (page images at HathiTrust)
Les curiositeś de la médecine (A. Maloine, 1900), by Augustin Cabanès and Milwaukee Academy of Medicine. Book Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
Der Humor bei Rembrandt : Inaugural-Dissertation der philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Bern zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde (s.n., 1906), by Eugen Rentsch (page images at HathiTrust)
Storia e fisiologia dell'arte di ridere. Favola--fiaba--commedia--satira--novella--prosa e poesia umoristica ... (U. Hoepli, 1900), by Tullo Massarani (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Among the humorists and after-dinner speakers; a new collection of humorous stories and anecdotes (Collier, 1909), by William Patten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The best stories in the world (Doubleday, Page & company, 1913), by Thomas Lansing Masson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Der Bürgerspiegel : eine Sammlung satirischer Anekdoten, Epigramme, Witze und Glossen (Malik-Verlag, 1925), by HonoreÌ Daumier, Friedrich Wendel, and Malik-Verlag (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Il comico, l'umore e la fantasia; o, Teoria del riso come introduzione all'estetica. (Fratelli Bocca, 1926), by Alberto Piccoli-Genovese (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Humor der Nationen : Ausgewählte Prosa (Wertbuchhandel, 1925), by Walter Petry (page images at HathiTrust)
Welthumor (Schuster, 1910), by Roda Roda and Theodor Schulze (page images at HathiTrust)
Welthumor : in sechs Bäden (Simplicissimus-Verlag, 1925), by Roda Roda and Theodor Schulze (page images at HathiTrust)
Curiosities of literature (W. Veazie, 1858), by Isaac Disraeli and Benjamin Disraeli (page images at HathiTrust)
Esar's joke dictionary (Harvest house, 1945), by Evan Esar (page images at HathiTrust)
Schwänke aus aller zelt (B. G. Teubner, 1908), by Oskar Dähnhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
Navaho humor (George Banta Publishing Company, 1943), by W. W. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
Essay on wit (1748); Richard Flecknoe's Of one that Zany's the good companion, and Of a bold abusive wit (2d ed., 1665); The Adventurer, nos. 127 and 133 [by] Joseph Warton (1754); Of wit (Weekly register, 1732) (Augustan Reprint Society, 1946), by Richard Flecknoe and Joseph Warton (page images at HathiTrust)
Masterpieces of wit and humor. (E.J. Long, 1902), by Robert J. Burdette (page images at HathiTrust)
Passing of the third floor back (Dodd, Mead & company, 1908), by Jerome K. Jerome (page images at HathiTrust)
The story of a doctor's telephone : told by his wife (The Roxburgh Publishing Company (Incorporated), 1912), by Ellen M. Firebaugh and Roxburgh Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
The wit of women (Funk & Wagnalls, 1895), by Kate Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)
The punster's pocket-book : or, the art of punning enlarged by Bernard Blackmantle, illustrated with numerous original designs by Robert Cruikshank. (Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1826), by C. M. Westmacott (page images at HathiTrust)
Poets at play : a handbook of humorous recitations (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888), by Frederick Langbridge (page images at HathiTrust)
The library of wit and humor, prose and poetry : selected from the literature of all times and nations (Classic, 1910), by Ainsworth Rand Spofford and Rufus Edmonds Shapley (page images at HathiTrust)
Best short stories (Doubleday, Page & company, 1918), by Thomas Lansing Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
Stories that take (Funk & Wagnalls company, 1910), by Grenville Kleiser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Laughter ... (Houghton, 1874), by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
The best stories in the world (Doubleday, Page & company, 1922), by Thomas Lansing Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
The doctor's window; poems by the doctor, for the doctor, and about the doctor (C. W. Moulton, 1898), by Ina Russelle Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
Tobias Smollett und der Humor ... (Marburg, 1910), by Friedrich Happel (page images at HathiTrust)
Mundus fatuus (M. Van Bossyut, 1669), by Jan de Leenheer (page images at HathiTrust)
The cyclopaedia of wit and humor; containing choice and characteristic selections from the writings of the most eminent humorists of America, Ireland, Scotland, and England : complete in one volume. (D. Appleton, 1875), by William E. Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor. (S. C. Griggs and company, 1880), by Marshall Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
Schwänke aus aller Welt für jung und alt (Teubner, 1908), by Oskar Dähnhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
Sankt Yoricks Glockenspiel : Satiren, Humoresken, Fabeln, Schwänke, Schnurren, Epigramme und Aphorisme (L. Staackmann, 1914), by Otto Ernst Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
Arthur O'Leary: his wanderings and ponderings in many lands. (H. Colburn, 1845), by Charles Lever and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
The cyclopædia of wit and humor (D. Appleton and company, 1866), by William E. Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
The physiology of the dance : a set arranged in eight figures (London Society, 1868), by Tom Hood and Florence Claxton (page images at HathiTrust)
The festival of wit; or, Small talker: being a collection of bon mots, anecdotes, &c., of the most exalted characters (C. and G. Kearsley, 1793), by summer resident at Windsor G*** K*** and G*** K*** (page images at HathiTrust)
The cyclopædia of wit and humor : containing choice and characteristic selections from the writings of the most eminent humorists of America, Ireland, Scotland, and England ... (D. Appleton and Company, 1858), by William E. Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
Ueber die Entstehung und die Entwicklungsformen des Witzes. : Zwei Vorträge gehalten in der Rose zu Jena im Februar 1871. (F. Bassermann, 1871), by Kuno Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)
A bunch of lemons collected, condemned and cussed (H. M. Caldwell, 1908), by A. Phew Lemons (page images at HathiTrust)
The merry philosopher; or, Thoughts on jesting ... (Printed for J. Newbery and W. Nicoll, 1764), by Georg Friedrich Meier (page images at HathiTrust)
The world's wit and humor : an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations... (The Review of reviews company, 1912), by Lionel Strachey (page images at HathiTrust)
New book of a thousand anecdotes, wit, humor, odd scraps, tales legends, bon mots, offhand hits, sketches ... (Richard Marsh, 1856), by A. Wag (page images at HathiTrust)
Idiot (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900), by John Kendrick Bangs (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of New-York : from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty : containing among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William, the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter, the Headstrong--the three Dutch governors of New Amsterdam : being the only authentic history of the times that ever hath been or ever will be published (Lea & Blanchard, 1842), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Yankee notions. A medley. (Otis, Broaders, 1838), by Samuel Kettell (page images at HathiTrust)
The pun book (Sully and Kleinteich, 1906), by Thomas A. Brown and T. J. Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
Monologues, epigrams, epitaphs and parodies (G. Sully, 1910), by J. F. Hartman (page images at HathiTrust)
Comical hits by famous wits; comprising wit, humor, pathos, ridicule, satire (Thompson & Thomas, 1900), by Melville D. Landon and Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor of the age; comprising wit, humor, pathos, ridicule, satires, dialects, puns, conundrums, riddles, charades, jokes and magic (Star Pub. Co., 1880), by Melville D. Landon (page images at HathiTrust)
A corner in women, and other follies (Moffat, Yard & company, 1905), by Thomas Lansing Masson, Charles H. Ebert, C. J. Budd, H. C. Wall, A. B. Walker, John Alonzo Williams, Clyde J. Newman, Albert Levering, Albert D. Blashfield, F. W. Read, James Montgomery Flagg, T. K. Hanna, E. W. Kemble, John Cecil Clay, Raymond Moreau Crosby, C. Allan Gilbert, and Charles Dana Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
Tom Hood's comic readings in prose and verse : a companion to Carpenter's penny readings. (F. Warne, 1869), by Tom Hood (page images at HathiTrust)
The ten books of the merrymakers (Circle Pub. Co., 1909), by Marshall P. Wilder (page images at HathiTrust)
The comic poems of Thomas Hood (E. Moxon, 1876), by Thomas Hood and Tom Hood (page images at HathiTrust)
An English girl in Paris. (John Lane, 1902), by John Lane Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Cyclopædia of wit and humor. (Appleton., 1867), by Wayne E. Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
Humour of bulls and blunders (Gay & Bird, in the 1900s), by Marshall Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Four hundred laughs; or, Fun without vulgarity, a cyclopædia of jests, toasts, eccentric rhymes, witty sayings. (New Amsterdam Book Co., 1902), by John R. Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
Ain't it awful. (Mutual Book Co., 1910), by E. C. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
Tales of humour: a scrap-book of choice stories of wit, interesting fables, and authentic anecdotes. (Leary & Getz, in the 1840s) (page images at HathiTrust)
The library of wit and humor, prose and poetry, selected from the literature of all times and nations (Gebbie & Co., 1892), by Ainsworth Rand Spofford and Rufus Edmonds Shapley (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor of well-known quotations (Small, Maynard & Co., 1905), by Marshall Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
Die unsterbliche Kiste : die 333 besten Witze der Weltliteratur (Blätter, 1907), by Alexander Moszkowski (page images at HathiTrust)
Knocking the neighbors (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912), by George Ade, Albert Levering, Country Life Press, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
Francisci Vavassoris ... De ludicra dictione liber in quo tota iocandi ratio ex veterum scriptis aestimatur. Eiusdem Antibarbarus seu De vi & usu quorundam verborum latinorum observationes. Accedunt Ioannis Ludouici Balzacii epistolae selectae ut et nonullae Menagii ad Maliabeccum, Datium, Chimentellum, Cultellinum, horumque responsiones. (sumptibus I. C. Martini, 1722), by François Vavasseur, Johann Erhard Kapp, Gilles Ménage, and Jean-Louis Guez Balzac (page images at HathiTrust)
Nugae venales, sive Thesaurus ridendi & jocandi ad gravissimos severissimosque viros, patres melancholicorum conscriptos. (Sumptibus Societatis., 1741) (page images at HathiTrust)
The scrap book; a selection of humorous stories, interesting fables, and authentic anecdotes. (J.Smith, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
The cyclopædia of wit and humor : containing choice and characteristic selections from the writings of the most eminent humorists of America, Ireland, Scotland, and England ... (D. Appleton and Co., 1898), by William Evans Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
Dictionnaire d'anecdotes, de traits singuliers et caractéristiques : historiettes, bons mots, naïvetés, saillies, reparties ingénieuses, etc. (A. Eymery, 1808), by Honoré Lacombe de Prézel (page images at HathiTrust)
The world's wit and humor; an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations. (The Review of reviews company, 1905), by Lionel Strachey and Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Comic dictionary. (Horizon Press, 1951), by Evan Esar (page images at HathiTrust)
The budget of wit and amusement: being a select collection of anecdotes, bon mots, etc. of celebrated characters: including many originals. (Pub. and sold by Daniel Steele, E. & E. Hosford, printers, 1812) (page images at HathiTrust)
The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical, in prose and verse. (1760), by Thomas Brown, Horace, Martial, Pope Pius II, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Aristaenetus, and James Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
Nicodemi Frischlini ... Facetiae selectiores qvibvs ob argvmenti similitudinem accesserunt Henrici Bebelii (Argentorati, typis J. Caroli, 1615), by Nicodemus Frischlin (page images at HathiTrust)
The Line book (Chicago Tribune, 1926), by Richard Henry Little and Shelby Little (page images at HathiTrust)
Humoristische Studien. (Verlag der Plahn'schen Buchhandlung, 1844), by Karl Alt (page images at HathiTrust)
Schimpf und Ernst (Philipp Reclam, 1880), by Johannes Pauli and H. A. Junghans (page images at HathiTrust)
The book of anecdotes, and budget of fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. (G. G. Evans, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
Dictionnaire d'anecdotes, de traits singulieres et caracteristiques, historiettes, bons mots, naivetés, saillies, reparties ingénieuses, etc., etc. (chez Delaguette, 1770), by Honoré Lacombe de Prézel (page images at HathiTrust)
The man of the world's dictionary. (Appleyard, 1822), by Alexandre Baudouin (page images at HathiTrust)
The Laughing philosopher : being the entire works of Momus, jester of Olympus; Democritus, the merry philosopher of Greece, and their illustrious disciples, Ben Jonson, Butler, Swift, Gay, Joseph Miller, Esq. Churchill, Voltaire, Foote, Steevens, Wolcot, Sheridan, Curran, Colman, and others. (Published by Sherwood, Jones, and Co. ... John Anderson, Jun. Edinburgh; J. Cumming, Dublin; and to be had of all dealers in classical literature., 1825), by Charles Lamb, Thomas Hood, and John Bull (page images at HathiTrust)
Sayings that never grow old; wit and humor of well-known quotations (Small, Maynard & company, 1918), by Marlshall Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
The cyclopadia of wit and humor (D.Appleton, 1872), by William E. Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor of the age : comprising wit, humor, pathos, ridicule, satires, dialects, puns, conundrums, riddles, charades, jokes and magic by Mark Twain ... [et al.] ; with the philosophy of wit and humor (Huffman & Johnson, 1884), by Melville D. Landon, Mark Twain, and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
Nederlandsche scherts : humor, satire, verzameld (J.B. Wolters, 1895), by C. F. van Duyl and L. Leopold (page images at HathiTrust)
Literature and life (Houghton, Mifflin, 1892), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
"The fotygraft album" : shown to the new neighbor by Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged eleven (Reilly & Britton, 1915), by Francis Marion Wing (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and its relation to the unconscious (T. Fisher Unwin, 1916), by Sigmund Freud and A. A. Brill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Anecdotes of the hour (Hearst's International Library, 1914), by Winston Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
A whimsey anthology. (Dover Publications, 1963), by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jokes and wit. (Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1873), by Douglas William Jerrold (page images at HathiTrust)
National humor : Scottish--English--Irish--Welsh--Cockney--American ([s.n., 1915), by David Macrae (page images at HathiTrust)
"Patchwork," embroidered with wit, whim, and fancy. (Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1858), by Howard Paul (page images at HathiTrust)
Quelques contes du Pogge (J. Gay, 1868), by Poggio Bracciolini and Gustave Brunet (page images at HathiTrust)
Art in the nursery : pictures for baby to draw, and pictures for baby to laugh at. (D. Lothrop & Co., 1879), by J. G. Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
The humbugs of the world (John Camden Hotten, 1866), by P. T. Barnum (page images at HathiTrust)
Curiosities of literature (Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1859), by Isaac Disraeli and Benjamin Disraeli (page images at HathiTrust)
Studiosus jovialis; ad modum libri, eandem inscriptionem ostendentis, quem olim ad jocose et honeste discurrendum Odilo Schreger in gratiam et usum juvenum, aliorumque literatorum virorum, honestae recreationis amantium, collegit (Carolus Doll, 1846), by Isidorus Täuber (page images at HathiTrust)
The Biglow papers (published by R. Worthington, 1866), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
Chit-chat of humor, wit, and anecdote. (Stringer & Townsend, 1857), by Thomas Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
Artemus Ward in London : and other papers (G.W. Carleton & co.;, 1870), by Artemus Ward, Justin H. Howard, and J. H. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
Literature and life. (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
Literature and life. (Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
Sayings, wise and otherwise (United States Book Co., 1870), by Frederic S. Cozzens (page images at HathiTrust)
The cabinet of Momus : a choice selection of humorous poems. (M. Carey, 1809) (page images at HathiTrust)
Wendunmuth (Litterarischer Verein in Stuttgart, 1869), by Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof and Hermann Oesterley (page images at HathiTrust)
Yankee notions. A medley. (Otis, Broaders and Company, 1838), by Samuel Kettell (page images at HathiTrust)
The Benjamin Franklin primer. (Attleboro Chronicle Print., 1878) (page images at HathiTrust)
Professional anecdotes, or Ana of medical literature ... (J. Knight & H. Lacey, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
Studies in jocular literature. A popular subject more closely considered. (E. Stock, 1890), by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
Little giant "burnt cork jokes" (Arthur Westbrook Co., 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
Nonsense book : a collection of limericks (Marshall Jones company, 1919), by Susan Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse : in four volumes : with a key to all his writings. (Printed for Sam. Briscoe, and sold by R. Smith and G. Strahan ... [and 5 others], 1715), by Thomas Brown and James Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
Among the freaks (Street & Smith, publishers, 1902), by W. L. Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
Public and parlor readings; prose and poetry, for the use of reading clubs and for public and social entertainment. (Lee and Shepard, 1899), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The banquet of wit, being a varied selection of anecdotes, bon mots et cetera (Pickering and co., 1882), by James Gray and J. J. B. Maidment (page images at HathiTrust)
Versuch einer Theorie des komischen (Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1817), by Johann Stephan Schütze (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor : a choice collection (S.C. Griggs, 1883), by Marshall Brown and John W. Beatty (page images at HathiTrust)
Second thoughts of an idle fellow (Copp Clark, 1898), by Jerome K. Jerome (page images at HathiTrust)
"Choice fragments" being a collection of wise and witty sayings of celebrated men ; anecdotes, conundrums, poetry, &c. (s.n.], 1866), by Thomas Sellar (page images at HathiTrust)
The pilgrim's annual a book of folly and wisdom (s.n.], 1916), by William Henry Bridge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Eighth annual convention of the American Press Humorists Association (s.n.], 1910), by Cy Warman and Quebec) American Press Humorists. Convention 1910 : Montréal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
My elopement with Martha a mountaineering episode (Alpine Club of Canada, 1919), by John Harker (page images at HathiTrust)
Patent sermons (Milner and Sowerby, 1865), by Elbridge Gerry Paige (page images at HathiTrust)
Splinters, or, A grist of giggles (Carswell, 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
My little book to which is added Pewbungle's log (Adam, Stevenson, 1873), by John Henry Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters and social aims. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1894), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
Burlesque (W. F. Gill, 1875), by Richard Henry Stoddard, William S. Walsh, and William Fearing Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor of the age : Comprising wit, humor, pathos, ridicule, satires, dialects, puns ... (Ross Publishing House, 1888), by Melville D. Landon and Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
Witz und humor; theorie und praxis (Richter & Kappler, 1877), by A. Löwenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
Le mal qu'on a dit des médecins (C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1884), by G.-J. Witkowski (page images at HathiTrust)
Gymnasial-director ***. (Denicke (Link & Reinke), 1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor: their use and abuse. (S.C. Griggs and Company, 1888), by William Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
Some stories by famous men (Hearst's International Library Co., 1915), by Brand Whitlock (page images at HathiTrust)
Framställning af de förnämsta teorierna om det komiska, ett bidrag till estetikens historia. I. Jean Paul och Benjamin Höijer ... (J.C. Frenckell & son, 1882), by Edvard Rindell (page images at HathiTrust)
That reminds me; a book of after dinner stories. (H. M. Caldwell co., 1911) (page images at HathiTrust)
Rudder Grange (Scribner, 1879), by Frank R. Stockton (page images at HathiTrust)
Life in Danbury: being a brief but comprehensive record of the doings of a remarkable people, under more remarkable circumstances, and chronicled in a most remarkable manner (Shepard and Gill, 1873), by James M. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
To trace the knave. (E. Johnson, 1888), by Owen Seaman, John D. Batten, and Lancelot Speed (page images at HathiTrust)
The happy habit (The Chapple publishing company, ltd., 1908), by Joseph Mitchell Chapple (page images at HathiTrust)
The great natural healer (George W. Jacobs, 1910), by Charles Heber Clark and William H. Helfand (page images at HathiTrust)
Y Ffraethebwr: yn cynnwys casgliad o ffraeth-ddywediadau, byr-chwedleuon, &c. (W.M. Evans a'i Fab, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
"Gay wisdom" (The Argus printing and stationery co. ltd., 1877), by Wilfrid Lawson (page images at HathiTrust)
Demokrit der jüngere; aus den papieren eines lachenden philosophen. (A. Fischer, 1893), by Franz Helbing (page images at HathiTrust)
Geisteskrankheit und Geistesschwäche in Satire, Sprichwort und Humor. (Carl Marhold, 1906), by Otto Mönkemöller (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Bacillenjäger. Ein medicinisches Wintermärchen in 3 Akten. ([Düsseld., 1891), by Bacillus Freimund Wunderfeind (page images at HathiTrust)
Prosector poeticus. Zur Feier des 37. Leipziger klinischen Vogelschiessens am 28. Juli 1888. (Lpz., 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
Being done good; comments on the advance made by medical science during the past 5,500 years in the treatment of rheumatism (The Brooklyn eagle, 1904), by Edward Burcham Lent (page images at HathiTrust)
The holy cross : and other tales. (Scribner, 1896), by Eugene Field (page images at HathiTrust)
Couple of hundred of the best stories ever told (H.M.Caldwell co., 1907), by Albert Milton Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
Sunbeams. (N.Y., 1887), by New York Dempsey & Carroll, George D Carroll, and George D. Carroll (page images at HathiTrust)
Treasure-trove. (Arundel Print, 1875), by William S. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
Spice and parody : a unique collection of funny rhymes, epigrams, epitaphs and parodies (New York ;, 1966), by J. F. Hartman (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor of the age : Comprising wit, humor, pathos, ridicule, satires, dialects, puns (Star pub. co., 1883), by Melville D. Landon and Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
Reflections of a bachelor (J.S. Ogilvie, 1897), by Post Wheeler and Charles Dana Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
Sid says (The Century co., 1922), by John MacAlpine Siddall (page images at HathiTrust)
300 latest stories by 300 famous story tellers ... The greatest collection of up-to-date humorous stories ever published in one volume. (Star Library Company, 1914), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
Nugae canorae medicae : lays (Edmonston and Douglas, 1873), by Douglas Maclagan (page images at HathiTrust)
My soundspeed discovery, expanding into a constructive medley of wit and song. Being a four years after-inflorescence of the life romance of an algebraist (The author, 1895), by George Winslow Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)
Public and parlor readings : prose and poetry for the use of reading clubs and for public and social entertainment : humorous (Lee & Shepard ;, 1872), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
Transactions of the Antiseptic club. (E.B. Treat & co., 1900), by Albert Abrams (page images at HathiTrust)
The physician's wife and the things that pertain to her life (F.A. Davis Co., 1910), by Ellen M. Firebaugh and F.A. Davis Company (page images at HathiTrust)
My opinions and Betsey Bobbet's : designed as a beacon light, to guide women to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book (American Pub. Co., 1891), by Marietta Holley and Conn.) American Publishing Company (Hartford (page images at HathiTrust)
Four hundred good stories. (Brunswick Subscription Co., 1919), by Robert Rudd Whiting (page images at HathiTrust)
Curiosities of matrimony : being a compilation of such marriage announcements in the last hundred years as called forth the most brilliant wit of the poets. (Concord, N.H. : Edson C. Eastman, [1889], 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
Inventions, useful and simple. (Carol Press, 1912), by Theodore Hanemann (page images at HathiTrust)
Die musik und das komische ... (Druck von H.W. Schmidt, 1876), by Fritz Ziller (page images at HathiTrust)
American wit and humor. (J.B. Lippincott company, 1889), by Charles Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
The library of wit and humor, prose and poetry : selected from the literature of all times and nations (Gebbie & co., 1893), by Ainsworth Rand Spofford and Rufus E. Shapley (page images at HathiTrust)
Der mann aus dem paradiese in der literatur und in volksmunde, eine vergleichende schwankuntersuchung (Suomalaisen tiedeakatemian kustantama, 1915), by Antti Aarne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
George Cruikshank's Omnibus ; illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood (Scribner, Welford, & Co., 1870), by George Cruikshank and Laman Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
Points of humour; illustrated by the designs of George Cruikshank. (C. Baldwyn, 1823), by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
The world of wit and humor (Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1885), by George Manville Fenn (page images at HathiTrust)
Zla žena : veselo pozorište u tri d︠ie︡ǐstva (Tip. Pavla Iankoviča, 1838), by Jovan Sterija Popović (page images at HathiTrust)
Schwänke (Bei H.F. Hartmann, 1826), by Friedrich Laun and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature (page images at HathiTrust)
Witty sayings by witty people. (Robinson, 1878), by William Hardcastle Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
Artemus Ward : his book (Carleton, 1865), by Artemus Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
Diana's diary (Laird & Lee, Pub., 1908), by F. W. Schaefer and A. D. Condo (page images at HathiTrust)
National humour: Scottish, English, Irish, Welsh, Cockney, American. (Gardner, 1916), by David Macrae (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Wit & humour; poems (J.C. Hotten, 1867), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
Some stories by famous men as told by Brand Whitlock, Admiral Lord Fisher, Sir Gilbert Parker ... : and over 150 others. (Hearst's international library co., 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor of the age. (Starr publishing co., 1883), by Melville D. Landon and Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
Chit-chat of humor, wit, and anecdote (Stringer & Townsend, 1857), by Pierce Pungent (page images at HathiTrust)
The library of wit and humor, prose and poetry. (The Gebbie publishing co., limited, 1891), by Ainsworth Rand Spofford and Rufus E. Shapley (page images at HathiTrust)
Dick's Ethiopian scenes, variety sketches, and stump speeches : containing end men's jokes. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1879), by William B. Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
More good things from Cruikshank's omnibus : a vehicle for fun and frolic. (E. Ferrett & Co., 1845), by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
Dick's comic dialogues : a collection of easy and effective dramatic dialogues specially adapted for performance by young people (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1886), by William B. Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
Ueber wesen und begriff des humoristischen ... (Schweidnitz, 1882), by A. Friede (page images at HathiTrust)
Da lachen die hühner! Prima-witzkörner zum aufpicken ... (Verlag der lustigen blätter (Dr. Eysler), 1914), by Alexander Moszkowski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Black diamonds, or, Humor, satire, and sentiment, treated scientifically by professor Julius Cæsar Hannibal : in a series of burlesque lectures, darkly colored. (T. L. Magagnos, 1855), by Julius Caesar Hannibal and John William Orr (page images at HathiTrust)
George Cruikshank's Omnibus. Illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood... (Bell & Daldy, 1870), by George Cruikshank and Laman Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
Literature and life (Houghton, Mifflin, 1896), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
Daffydils (Cupples & Leon, 1911), by TAD (page images at HathiTrust)
Comical hits by famous wits, comprising art, humor, pathos, ridicule, satire (Thompson & Thomas, 1900), by Melville DeLancey Landon and Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor of the age, comprising wit, humor, pathos, ridicule, satires, dialects, puns, conundrums, riddles, charades, jokes and magic (G. S. Cline ;, 1889), by Melville D. Landon and Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
Punchiana : or, Selections from the London charivari. With ten humorous illustrations, by Leech and others. (Carey and Hart, 1848), by John Leech (page images at HathiTrust)
Jest book, or, the modern Joe Miller : containing modern humour, anecdote, and wit, bon mots, puns, bulls, riddles, charades, puzzles, magic, conjuring, etc. (Lippincott, 1884), by R. C. W. (page images at HathiTrust)
Thirty years of wit and reminiscences of witty, wise, and eloquent men (Cassell publishing company, 1891), by Melville D. Landon (page images at HathiTrust)
The chaplet of Comus; or, Feast of sentiment, and festival of wit ... (Munroe and Francis [etc.], 1811) (page images at HathiTrust)
Folkhumor; skämtsagor och historier från olika länder för ung och gammal (M. Bergvall, 1916), by Elias Grip (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The new golfer's almanac : carefully compiled and computed on an ingenious astronomical basis for the year 1910 A.D. And containing a calendar and reliable weather predictions for every month, besides an entertaining miscellany of golfing literature and information, hitherto (probably) unassembled in a single book (Houghton, Mifflin, 1909), by William Leavitt Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
The bumblepuppy book (Isbister, 1903), by Carolyn Wells and Oliver Herford (page images at HathiTrust)
Le bon vivant : journal humoristique de la famille. (A. Fayard, 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
Barbed wit & malicious humor. (Citadel Press, 1956), by Patrick Mahony (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Řesěto; satiry, grotesky a také několik humoresek (Praze, 1918), by Emil Vachek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tréfás versek gyüternénye: a Magyar költészetből (Pest : Demjén és Sebes, 1864., 1864), by Zilahy Károly (page images at HathiTrust)
Hot stuff, by famous funny men ... (Reilly & Britton, 1901), by Josh Billings (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor; their use and abuse (Scott, Foresman, 1896), by William Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor; from the writings of the world's greatest humorists, Mark Twain [pseud.] Bob Burdette ... and many others, with "Philosophy of wit and humor" (Thompson & Thomas, 1901), by Melville D. Landon and Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
Gleanings from the harvest-fields of literature : a melange of excerpta, curious, humorous, and instructive (T. N. Kurtz, 1869), by Charles C. Bombaugh (page images at HathiTrust)
Literature and life. (Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
Esar's Comic dictionary (Harvest house, 1943), by Evan Esar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Wit and humor of the age. Comprising wit, humor, pathos, ridicule, satires, dialects, puns by Mark Twain [pseud.], Josh Billings [pseud.], Robt. J. Burdette, Alex. Sweet, Eli Perkins [pseud.] (Western publishing house, 1883), by Melville D. Landon and Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
Gems of thought encyclopedia. (Washington, 1952), by C. F. Kleinknecht (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The good things of Life : second series (White, Stokes, & Allen, 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
Cream of wit; classified dictionary of inspiration from the masters of oratory, literature, and philosophy. (Sebring, Fla., 1953), by Rod Arkell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The medical muse, grave and gay. A collection of rhymes, up to date, by the doctor, for the doctor, and against the doctor (I. E. Booth, 1896), by John F. B. Lillard (page images at HathiTrust)
Klassischer humor der weltliteratur. (Bong & Co., 1902), by Edward Stilgebauer (page images at HathiTrust)
Season among "The bankers" (A. Hart, 1850), by George Higby Throop (page images at HathiTrust)
El Duende. (Gaspar y C., 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
Mr. Dooley on timely topics of the day : on the life insurance investigation, on business & political honesty, on national housecleaning (s.n.], 1905), by Finley Peter Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
The educational value of the tragic as compared with the comic in literature and art. ([Boston?, 1898), by William Torrey Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
American wit and humor. (Published for N. Doubleday, by Doubleday, Page, 1925), by Thomas Lansing Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
Der ästhetische Wert des Komischen und das Wesen des Humors : eine psychologische Skizze (A. Francke, 1915), by Robert Roetschi (page images at HathiTrust)
Fatty Lewis (X) his book ... (The Lechtman Press, 1915), by Arthur Frederick Killick (page images at HathiTrust)
Wisdom, wit and allegory. Selected from "The Spectator." (Virtue and Yorston, 1869), by Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
Lectures on subjects connected with literature and life. (Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Edwin Percy Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
The Strange adventures of Bachelor Butterfly; setting forth how his passion for natural history wholly eradicated the tender passion implanted in his breast, and induced him to discard the chosen of his heart - also, detailing his dire misfortunes and hair-breadth escapes both by sea and land, and his singular marriage to a "beauty from Cork," who proves to be an extremely interesting widow with eight small children - then, his domestic bliss. (Wilson, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
The anecdote book : a choice collection of anecdotes, jests, witty sayings, bon mots, &c., &c., selected from the best sources. (Printed for the Booksellers, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
A satire upon physicians, or an English paraphrase : with notes and references, of Dr. King's most memorable oration, delivered at the dedication of the Radclivian Library in Oxford ; to which is added, a curious petition to an Hon. House, in favour of Dr. King. (Printed for R. Griffiths, 1755) (page images at HathiTrust)
El mundo comico : semanario humoristico ilustrado. (Imp. T. Fortanet, 1873) (page images at HathiTrust)
Wit and humor of the age; comprising wit, humor, pathos, ridicule, satires, dialects, puns ... (Star Pub. Co., 1892), by Mark Twain and Melville D. Landon (page images at HathiTrust)
The mental and moral philosophy of laughter: a vista of the ludicrous side of life. (Partridge & Oakey, 1852), by Edwin Paxton Hood (page images at HathiTrust)
The animal joker; a treasury of jokes and gags dealing with different kinds of beasts, birds, fish and insects (Harvest House, 1946), by Evan Esar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Dear dollink : Momma writes to her Frankie at the front (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1945), by Milt Gross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Pungent paragraphs; a handbook of humorous illustrations, wit and humor for debaters, lecturers, ministers, after-dinner speakers, and for general reading (Leewin B. Williams and Son, 1926), by Leewin Bell Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
An outline of humor: Being a true chronicle from prehistoric ages to the twentieth century, ed. by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg ebook)
Wehman Bros.' Vaudeville Jokes No. 1. (Gutenberg ebook)
The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English;: or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern (in English and French), by Abel Boyer (Gutenberg ebook)
Witty Pieces by Witty People: A collection of the funniest sayings, best jokes, laughable anecdotes, mirthful stories, etc., extant (Gutenberg ebook)
The Story of a Doctor's Telephone—Told by His Wife, by Ellen M. Firebaugh (Gutenberg ebook)
Ciarle e macchiette (in Italian), by Luigi Arnaldo Vassallo (Gutenberg ebook)
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;: containing a collection of over one thousand of the most: laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and: humorists. (Gutenberg ebook)
Max and Maurice: A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks, by Wilhelm Busch, trans. by Charles Timothy Brooks (Gutenberg ebook)
The Wit of Women: Fourth Edition, by Kate Sanborn (Gutenberg ebook)
The Pirate's Pocket Book, by Dion Clayton Calthrop (Gutenberg ebook)
Watch Yourself Go By, by Al. G. Field, illust. by Ben W. Warden (Gutenberg ebook)
Stories of Comedy, ed. by Rossiter Johnson (Gutenberg ebook)
Crankisms, by Lisle de Vaux Matthewman, illust. by Clare Victor Dwiggins (Gutenberg ebook)
Max und Moritz: Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen (in German), by Wilhelm Busch (Gutenberg ebook)
The Silly Syclopedia: A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for Hilarious Purposes Only Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing Copious Etymological Derivations and Other Useless Things, by George V. Hobart, illust. by Louis F. Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
Best Short Stories, ed. by Thomas L. Masson (Gutenberg ebook)
Essays on Wit No. 2, contrib. by Edward Niles Hooker, Richard Flecknoe, and Joseph Warton (Gutenberg ebook)
Essay upon Wit, by Richard Blackmore, contrib. by Richard Charles Boys and Joseph Addison (Gutenberg ebook)
Original travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen (London: Trübner & Co., 1889), by Alfred Henry Forrester (page images at Florida)
Little stay-at-home and her friends (Philadelphia: F.W. Robinson & Co., 1879), by Louise Clarkson Whitelock (page images at Florida)
A treatise of the sports of wit ([London] : Printed for the author, 1675), by Richard Flecknoe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
The canting academy, or, The devils cabinet opened wherein is shewn the mysterious and villanous practices of that wicked crew, commonly known by the names of hectors, trapanners, gilts, &c. : to which is added a compleat canting-dictionary, both of old words, and such as are now most in use : with several new catches and songs, compos'd by the choisest wits of the age ... (London : Printed by F. Leach for Mat. Drew ..., 1673), by Richard Head (HTML at EEBO TCP)
The wise and ingenious companion, French and English, or, A collection of the wit of the illustrious persons, both ancient and modern containing their wise sayings, noble sentiments, witty repartees, jests and pleasant stories : calculated for the improvement and pleasure of the English and foreigners / by Mr. Boyer ... (London : Printed by G.C. for Tho. Newborough ... and J. Nicholson ..., 1700), by Abel Boyer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
VVit and vvealth contending for preheminence:: in a different dialogue between Wat Witty-pole and Davy Rich. (London : Printed for T.B. at the sign of the Maiden-head, neare Holborn Conduit, 1647) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
The Complaisant companion, or, New jests, witty reparties, bulls, rhodomontado's, and pleasant novels (London : Printed by H.B. ..., 1674) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
A Merry-conceited fortune-teller prognosticating to all trades and professions their good and bad fortune : calculated according to art for the meridian of England but may serve for all four parts east, west, north and south from the beginning of the world to the end thereof. (London : Printed for John Andrews, 1662) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Funny stories: or, The American jester: being a companion for a merry good fellow. Containing, choice stories, funny anecdotes, wise sayings, smart repartees, &c. &c. &c. "I love funn!" Falstaff. (Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts, : [by Isaiah Thomas Jun.] and sold at the Worcester bookstore, and by the booksellers in town and country., 1795) (HTML at Evans TCP)
Laugh and be fat. Or, An antidote against melancholy. Containing a great variety of comical intrigues and fine stories; witty epigrams and comical whims; epitaphs, humourous jests, &c. / Written by the most ingenious authors of the age. (Salem [Mass.]: : Printed [by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun.] at Faust's Head, Essex-Street., --1799) (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)

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