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Subject Terms Wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.

1. Human passions delineated in above 120 figures : droll, satyrical, and humorous : designed in the Hogarthian style, very useful for young practitioners in drawing / by Timothy Bobbin.

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Creator:: Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786
Date:: [1858]
Physical Description:: [33] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John E. Hankins

2. 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:: 1808
Physical Description:: xxiv, 36 pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

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Creator:: Clubbe, John, 1702 or 3–1773
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 30 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The history and antiquities of the ancient villa of Wheatfield, in the county of Suffolk.

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Creator:: Clubbe, John, 1702 or 1703–1773
Date:: MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:: xiii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 16-31 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts