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Subject Terms Wit and humor -- Great Britain.

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1. Pleasures of the water cure / by a patient who has been well drench'd and wrench'd and restored to health ; portraits of celebrated water doctors.

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Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886
Date:: 1860]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all ill. ; 14 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Whom to marry and how to get married, or, The adventures of a lady in search of a good husband / edited by the brothers Mayhew ; illustrated by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:: Mayhew, Horace, 1816–1872
Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: [4], 271 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

3. An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions, for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling / illustrated with copper plates, and adorned with a portrait of the author / by Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. ; Riding Master, Master of the Horse, and Grand Equerry to the Doge of Venice.

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Creator:: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:: 1st Jany. 1825
Physical Description:: xxvii, [2], 30-75, [4], lxxx-xcix, [2], 102-201, [1] pages, [27] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Substitude : ridiculousification and the attitude of Donald Parsnips.

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Creator:: Parsnips, Donald
Date:: 1996
Physical Description:: [104] p. : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The commercial tourist, or, Gentleman traveller : a satirical poem : in four cantos : embellished with colored engravings.

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Creator:: Hempel, Charles William, 1777–1855
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [4], 140 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling : The annals of horsemanship : containing accounts of accidental experiments and experimental accidents, both successful and unsuccessful : communicated by various correspondents to the author / Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. ; Riding master, Master of the Horse, and Grand Equery tp the Doge of Venice ; illustrated with cuts, by the most eminent artists.

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Creator:: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: [4], 140 pages, [29] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Reflections / by J. V. Barret.

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Creator:: Barret, J. V.
Date:: [1859]
Physical Description:: [13] leaves : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The common-place book of literary curiosities, remarkable customs, historical and domestic anecdotes and etymological scraps / by the Rev. Dr. Dryasdust, of York, somewhile preface-writer to the great unknown.

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Creator:: Dryasdust
Date:: MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:: 423 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Whom to marry and how to get married / by one who has refused "Twenty excellent offers" at least ; illustrated by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:: Mayhew, Horace, 1816–1872
Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: [6] pts. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts