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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Subject Terms Satire, English.

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Subject Terms Wit and humor.

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1. [Caricature card depiciting a sepia illustration of a shop assistant, with verse]

[Caricature card depiciting a sepia illustration of a shop assistant, with verse]
Creator:
Dean & Son
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 card ; illustrations ; 16 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The complete collection of Randolph Caldecott's contributions to the "Graphic" printed by Edmund Evans / with a preface by Arthur Locker ...

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Creator:
Caldecott, Randolph, 1846–1886
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
339, [1] p. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John E. Hankins

3. The pleasures of human life : investigated cheerfully, elucidated satirically, promulgated explicitly, and discussed philosophically : in a dozen dissertations on male, female, and neuter pleasures. Interspersed with various anecdotes, and expounded by numerous annotations / by Hilarius Benevolus, & co., fellows of the "London literary society of Lusorists." Embellished with five illlustrative etchings, and two head-pieces.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
xvi, 223, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Arliss's funny library, of wit, satire, and humour : containing, facetiae, under the heads of pasquinades, anecdotes, jeu d'esprits, witticisms : mornings at Bow Street, new punning songs, broad grins, maxims, irish bulls, conundrums, anagrams, enigmas, bon mots, whims, tid bits, curious epitaphs, brevities, yarns, miseries, long bows, puzzles, &c., &c., : embellished with forty-eight numerous wood engravings by the most eminent artists.

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Date:
1832
Physical Description:
128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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.

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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

6. The book of etiquette [graphic].

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Creator:
Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850
Date:
[ca. 1830]
Physical Description:
23 pictures : hand-colored etchings ; sheets end-to-end 18 x 230 cm, accordion folded to 18 x 10 cm, attached to boards 19 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts