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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Reference Library
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Creator
Horl, Mikel
8
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
Hill, Jonathan E
1
Hort, John Josiah, 1824–1882
1
Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788–1845
1
Lamb, Charles, 1775–1834
1
Mason, Finch
1
Mayhew, Horace, 1816–1872
1
Muir, Frank
1
Shenstone, William, 1714–1763
1
Smith, Andrew
1
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Books
42
Archives & Manuscripts
2
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Period
19th century
28
20th century
18
18th century
2
Work Type
wood engraving
10
artists' book
9
lithograph
4
aquatint
3
publishers' advertisement
3
caricature
2
chromoxylograph
2
poem
2
steel engraving
2
armorial bookplates (provenance)
1
binders' stamps (binding)
1
clippings (information artifacts)
1
coloring book
1
commonplace book
1
engraving
1
essay
1
etching
1
extra-illustrated copies (provenance)
1
hand-colored illustration
1
humor
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English wit and humor.
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Satire, English.
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Artists' books -- Great Britain.
9
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
6
Caricatures and cartoons.
4
Ballads, English.
3
Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain.
3
Horl, Mikel -- Publisher.
3
Anecdotes.
2
English poetry.
2
English wit and humor, Pictorial.
2
Horl, Mikel. -- Publisher.
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
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19th century
6
18th century
2
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Great Britain
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Dublin
1
Edinburgh
1
Edinburgh (Scotland)
1
Egypt
1
England
1
Ipswich (England)
1
London
1
Manchester (England)
1
New York
1
New York (State)
1
Rome
1
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
1
Associated People
Burgess, George Henry, 1831–1905
1
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
1
Foote, Samuel, 1720–1777
1
Hone, William, 1780–1842
1
Hook, Theodore Edward, 1788–1841
1
Horl, Mikel
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
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bert Boyson
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Eric Stryker, Yale PhD 2007
1
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English
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À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811–1856
The comic history of Rome
[1852]
2
Crowquill, Alfred
Absurdities
1827
3
Burgess, George Henry, 1831–1905
Neilondé
[1860]
4
Mayhew, Horace, 1816–1872
Model men
[1848?]
5
Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836–1917
About buying a horse, &c. &c.
1875
6
The comic album
1844
7
Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788–1845
The Ingoldsby legends, or, Mirth & marvels
1898
8
Commonplace book, with verse, newspaper clippings and prints
circa 1812-1816
9
Liston's characters
1826
10
Foote, Samuel, 1720–1777
Bon-mots of Samuel Foote and Theodore Hook
MDCCCXCIV [1894]
11
À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811–1856
The comic history of England
MDCCCXLVII-MDCCCXLIX [1847-1848]
12
Morsels for merry and melancholy mortals ..
1815
13
Horl, Mikel
Caveperson
c1988
14
Hort, John Josiah, 1824–1882
The days when we had tails on us
1849
15
Smith, Andrew
The bad man chase
1997
16
Horl, Mikel
Little King Edward
c1988
17
Cowper, William, 1731–1800
Cowper's diverting history of John Gilpin
[1855]
18
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
An academy for grown horsemen
1929
19
The Vauxhall papers
1841
20
Horl, Mikel
A nook of bon sense
c1990
21
A catalogue raisonée [sic] of the pictures now exhibiting in Pall Mall ..
1816
22
Horl, Mikel
Questions? Questions?
1991
23
Cowper, William, 1731–1800
John Gilpin
[between 1853 and 1862]
24
Rhymes for the Egyptian scrap book
approximately 1860?
25
Mason, Finch
The run of the season
[1902?]
26
Lamb, Charles, 1775–1834
Bon-mots of Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold
MDCCCXCIII [1893]
27
Horl, Mikel
Horl's outlandish & endangered species
1994
28
Brighton!!
1830
29
The comic album
1843
30
Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 1797–1839
Weeds of witchery
1837
31
Horl, Mikel
Goose around London
c1985
32
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799–1864
The old English 'squire
1821
33
Shenstone, William, 1714–1763
Men & manners
MCMXXVII [1927]
34
Horl, Mikel
Unlikely hero number 00327
1991
35
Horl, Mikel
Arthur Giraffe is better than none!
1989
36
Blackwood's comic Zadkiel
MDCCLV [1855]
37
Whimsical song book for 1814
[1815]
38
Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798–1854
Specimen of the catalogue of the great sale at Gooseberry Hall
[1842]
39
Hill, Jonathan E
The genial genius of George Cruikshank (1792-1878)
[1992]
40
Muir, Frank
An irreverent and thoroughly incomplete social history of almost everything
1976
41
Wardroper, John
The world of William Hone
c1997
42
The Oxford book of humorous prose
1990
43
Punch on Europe
1992
44
The festival of Punch
1951