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Subject Terms English wit and humor.

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1. Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the Englyshe bathe the bodyes of the womenne & childrenne in the sea.

Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the Englyshe bathe the bodyes of the womenne & childrenne in the sea.
Creator:
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) : etching ; 19 x 12 cm, folded to 9 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the ladyes of Englande doe dresse.

Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the ladyes of Englande doe dresse.
Creator:
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : etching ; 9 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : Showynge howe the womenne doe goe shoppynge.

Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : Showynge howe the womenne doe goe shoppynge.
Creator:
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) : etching ; 19 x 12 cm, folded to 9 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the younge menne doe smoke.

Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the younge menne doe smoke.
Creator:
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) : etching ; 19 x 12 cm, folded to 9 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The comic album : a book for every table.

No cover image available
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
[140] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Commonplace book.

No cover image available
Date:
ca. 1812-1816
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 350 pages) illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Absurdities : in prose and verse / written and illustrated by A. Crowquill.

No cover image available
Creator:
Crowquill, Alfred
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
[2], x, [2], 132 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Bon-mots of Samuel Foote and Theodore Hook / edited by Walter Jerrold with grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley.

No cover image available
Creator:
Foote, Samuel, 1720–1777
Date:
MDCCCXCIV [1894]
Physical Description:
192 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Alicia Faxon in memory of Richard B. Faxon, Yale Class of 1949

9. The days when we had tails on us : with fourteen coloured illustrations : dedicated to the officers of the British infantry.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hort, John Josiah, 1824–1882
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
viii, 24 p., 13 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Model men / modelled by Horace Mayhew ; sculptured by H.G. Hine.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mayhew, Horace, 1816–1872
Date:
[1848?]
Physical Description:
2 volumes in 1 (x, [3], 14-114; viii, [1], 10-114, [6] pages) : illustratons ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bert Boyson

11. Neilondé : an Egyptian scrap-book / by GHB.

No cover image available
Creator:
Burgess, George Henry, 1831–1905
Date:
[1860]
Physical Description:
[1], 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Bon-mots of Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold / edited by Walter Jerrold ; with grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley.

No cover image available
Creator:
Lamb, Charles, 1775–1834
Date:
MDCCCXCIII [1893]
Physical Description:
[2], 191, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Alicia Faxon in memory of Richard B. Faxon, Yale Class of 1949

13. The Vauxhall papers / edited by Alfred Bunn ; illustrated by Alfred Crowquill.

No cover image available
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
[2], 130 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The comic album : a book for every table.

No cover image available
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
[138] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Weeds of witchery / by Thomas Haynes Bayly, Esq., author of the second volume of "Flowers of Loveliness," "Perfection," "The Barrack Room," "A Gentleman in Difficulties," &c.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 1797–1839
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
32 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The old English 'squire : "a jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank and free" : a poem in ten cantos / by John Careless, Esq. ; illustrated with plates by one of the family.

No cover image available
Creator:
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799–1864
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
viii, 136 pages, [24] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. John Gilpin.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cowper, William, 1731–1800
Date:
[between 1853 and 1862]
Physical Description:
15 p. : ill. ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Rhymes for the Egyptian scrap book.

No cover image available
Date:
approximately 1860?
Physical Description:
48 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Blackwood's comic Zadkiel : an almanac at once prophetical and profitable, logical and astrological, quizzical and physical, ombrological and symbolical, astronomically comical and comically astronomical, for the year 1855 : a work devoted to all the "ologies" except tautology, and containing full prophecies upon everything which nobody wishes to know : and truthfully foretelling every future event, from the winner of the Derby to the next revolution in the wheel of time / edited by Hain Friswell, author of "The shadow of St. Paul's," "Twelve insides," "Houses with the fronts off," "The Russian empire," etc. etc. ; and illustrated by William McConnell.

No cover image available
Date:
MDCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:
[10], [v]-viii, [9]-96 p., [7] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Specimen of the catalogue of the great sale at Gooseberry Hall : with puffatory remarks.

No cover image available
Creator:
Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798–1854
Date:
[1842]
Physical Description:
xv, [1] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The festival of Punch : 1851-1951.

No cover image available
Date:
1951
Physical Description:
xlii, 112, lxxxiii p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Eric Stryker, Yale PhD 2007