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Subject Terms English wit and humor.

1. Cowper's diverting history of John Gilpin : with twenty illustrations by Percy Cruikshank.

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Creator:: Cowper, William, 1731–1800
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([20] p.) : ill. ; 13 x 260 cm, folded to 13 x 13 cm, in boards 14 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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.

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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