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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811–1856
2
Cowper, William, 1731–1800
2
Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 1797–1839
1
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
1
Burgess, George Henry, 1831–1905
1
Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836–1917
1
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799–1864
1
Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798–1854
1
Crowquill, Alfred
1
Foote, Samuel, 1720–1777
1
Hort, John Josiah, 1824–1882
1
Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788–1845
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Lamb, Charles, 1775–1834
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Mayhew, Horace, 1816–1872
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Shenstone, William, 1714–1763
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1898
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Books
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unknown
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19th century
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18th century
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20th century
2
Work Type
wood engraving
10
lithograph
4
aquatint
3
publishers' advertisement
3
chromoxylograph
2
steel engraving
2
armorial bookplates (provenance)
1
binders' stamps (binding)
1
caricature
1
essay
1
etching
1
extra-illustrated copies (provenance)
1
hand-colored illustration
1
humor
1
photomechanical print
1
poem
1
private press books (publishing)
1
publishers' cloth bindings (binding)
1
satire
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English wit and humor.
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Satire, English.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Caricatures and cartoons.
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Ballads, English.
3
Anecdotes.
2
Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain.
2
Humorous poetry, English.
2
J. M. Dent and Co. -- Publisher.
2
Manners and customs.
2
Townsend, J. Barton -- Bookplate.
2
Turner & Spears -- Printer.
2
Vizetelly Brothers and Co. -- Printer
2
Ackermann and Co. -- Publisher.
1
Acting -- Great Britain.
1
Actors -- Great Britain -- Portraits.
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Ainsworth, W.H. -- Pres. insc. from Alfred Bunn.
1
Almanacs, English.
1
Andrews, John -- Publisher.
1
Astrology -- Humor.
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19th century
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Great Britain
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Dublin
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Edinburgh
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Edinburgh (Scotland)
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England
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Ipswich (England)
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London
1
New York
1
New York (State)
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Rome
1
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
1
Associated People
Foote, Samuel, 1720–1777
1
Hook, Theodore Edward, 1788–1841
1
Jerrold, Douglas, 1803–1857
1
Lamb, Charles, 1775–1834
1
Liston, John, 1776–1846
1
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Alicia Faxon in memory of Richard B. Faxon, Yale Class of 1949
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bert Boyson
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
1
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English
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Mayhew, Horace, 1816–1872
Model men
[1848?]
2
Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788–1845
The Ingoldsby legends, or, Mirth & marvels
1898
3
Burgess, George Henry, 1831–1905
Neilondé
[1860]
4
Morsels for merry and melancholy mortals ..
1815
5
Shenstone, William, 1714–1763
Men & manners
MCMXXVII [1927]
6
Liston's characters
1826
7
Hort, John Josiah, 1824–1882
The days when we had tails on us
1849
8
Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836–1917
About buying a horse, &c. &c.
1875
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Brighton!!
1830
10
Cowper, William, 1731–1800
Cowper's diverting history of John Gilpin
[1855]
11
Foote, Samuel, 1720–1777
Bon-mots of Samuel Foote and Theodore Hook
MDCCCXCIV [1894]
12
Crowquill, Alfred
Absurdities
1827
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À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811–1856
The comic history of Rome
[1852]
14
À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811–1856
The comic history of England
MDCCCXLVII-MDCCCXLIX [1847-1848]
15
The comic album
1844
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The comic album
1843
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Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 1797–1839
Weeds of witchery
1837
18
The Vauxhall papers
1841
19
Lamb, Charles, 1775–1834
Bon-mots of Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold
MDCCCXCIII [1893]
20
A catalogue raisonée [sic] of the pictures now exhibiting in Pall Mall ..
1816
21
Cowper, William, 1731–1800
John Gilpin
[between 1853 and 1862]
22
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
An academy for grown horsemen
1929
23
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799–1864
The old English 'squire
1821
24
Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798–1854
Specimen of the catalogue of the great sale at Gooseberry Hall
[1842]
25
Blackwood's comic Zadkiel
MDCCLV [1855]
26
Whimsical song book for 1814
[1815]