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1. Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the ladyes of Englande doe dresse.

Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the ladyes of Englande doe dresse.
Creator:
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : etching ; 9 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the Englyshe bathe the bodyes of the womenne & childrenne in the sea.

Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the Englyshe bathe the bodyes of the womenne & childrenne in the sea.
Creator:
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) : etching ; 19 x 12 cm, folded to 9 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Sallis's comic play grammar.

Sallis's comic play grammar.
Creator:
Sallis, William, 1782–1865
Date:
[ca. 1850?]
Physical Description:
1 card game (41 cards) : illustrations ; each card 9.8 x 7 cm, in box 10.5 x 7.3 x 3 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : Showynge howe the womenne doe goe shoppynge.

Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : Showynge howe the womenne doe goe shoppynge.
Creator:
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) : etching ; 19 x 12 cm, folded to 9 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the younge menne doe smoke.

Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the younge menne doe smoke.
Creator:
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) : etching ; 19 x 12 cm, folded to 9 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Morsels for merry and melancholy mortals ...

No cover image available
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
144 p. : col. ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Model men / modelled by Horace Mayhew ; sculptured by H.G. Hine.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mayhew, Horace, 1816–1872
Date:
[1848?]
Physical Description:
2 volumes in 1 (x, [3], 14-114; viii, [1], 10-114, [6] pages) : illustratons ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bert Boyson

8. The comic history of England / by Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett ; with ten coloured etchings, and one hundred and twenty woodcuts by John Leech.

No cover image available
Creator:
À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811–1856
Date:
MDCCCXLVII-MDCCCXLIX [1847-1848]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Bon-mots of Samuel Foote and Theodore Hook / edited by Walter Jerrold with grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley.

No cover image available
Creator:
Foote, Samuel, 1720–1777
Date:
MDCCCXCIV [1894]
Physical Description:
192 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Alicia Faxon in memory of Richard B. Faxon, Yale Class of 1949

10. The comic history of Rome / by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett ; illustrated by by John Leech.

No cover image available
Creator:
À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811–1856
Date:
[1852]
Physical Description:
xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Absurdities : in prose and verse / written and illustrated by A. Crowquill.

No cover image available
Creator:
Crowquill, Alfred
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
[2], x, [2], 132 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Liston's characters : six coloured engravings.

No cover image available
Date:
1826
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Little King Edward / by Mikel Horl.

Little King Edward / by Mikel Horl.
Creator:
Horl, Mikel
Date:
c1988
Physical Description:
[28] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The Ingoldsby legends, or, Mirth & marvels / by Thomas Ingoldsby, esquire ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788–1845
Date:
1898
Physical Description:
xxiii, 638, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

15. The Vauxhall papers / edited by Alfred Bunn ; illustrated by Alfred Crowquill.

No cover image available
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
[2], 130 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A nook of bon sense / [empiled and codited by Mikel Horl].

No cover image available
Creator:
Horl, Mikel
Date:
c1990
Physical Description:
[23], [23] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling / by Geoffrey Gambado.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:
1929
Physical Description:
xx, 38 p. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A catalogue raisonée [sic] of the pictures now exhibiting in Pall Mall ...

No cover image available
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
2 pts. (vi, [7]-46; x, [11]-47, [1]) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Questions? Questions?

No cover image available
Creator:
Horl, Mikel
Date:
1991
Physical Description:
[26] p. : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. John Gilpin.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cowper, William, 1731–1800
Date:
[between 1853 and 1862]
Physical Description:
15 p. : ill. ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Rhymes for the Egyptian scrap book.

No cover image available
Date:
approximately 1860?
Physical Description:
48 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Horl's outlandish & endangered species : reproduced from 21 original etchings / by Doktor Mikel Horl ; to be coloured by their new owner.

No cover image available
Creator:
Horl, Mikel
Date:
1994
Physical Description:
[4] p., [21] leaves : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The comic album : a book for every table.

No cover image available
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
[138] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Weeds of witchery / by Thomas Haynes Bayly, Esq., author of the second volume of "Flowers of Loveliness," "Perfection," "The Barrack Room," "A Gentleman in Difficulties," &c.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 1797–1839
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
32 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. About buying a horse, &c. &c. / by F.C. Burnand ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836–1917
Date:
1875
Physical Description:
xii, 291, [1] pages ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Brighton!! : a comic sketch.

No cover image available
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
[7]-36 pages including frontispiece, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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

28. The run of the season / written and illustrated by Finch Mason.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mason, Finch
Date:
[1902?]
Physical Description:
26, [1] leaves : ill. ; 26 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Bon-mots of Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold / edited by Walter Jerrold ; with grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley.

No cover image available
Creator:
Lamb, Charles, 1775–1834
Date:
MDCCCXCIII [1893]
Physical Description:
[2], 191, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Alicia Faxon in memory of Richard B. Faxon, Yale Class of 1949

30. The bad man chase.

No cover image available
Creator:
Smith, Andrew
Date:
1997
Physical Description:
[52] p. : ill. ; 18 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Caveperson / by Mikel Horl.

No cover image available
Creator:
Horl, Mikel
Date:
c1988
Physical Description:
[40] p. : chiefly ill. ; 10 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The days when we had tails on us : with fourteen coloured illustrations : dedicated to the officers of the British infantry.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hort, John Josiah, 1824–1882
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
viii, 24 p., 13 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The comic album : a book for every table.

No cover image available
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
[140] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Neilondé : an Egyptian scrap-book / by GHB.

No cover image available
Creator:
Burgess, George Henry, 1831–1905
Date:
[1860]
Physical Description:
[1], 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Commonplace book.

No cover image available
Date:
ca. 1812-1816
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 350 pages) illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Goose around London / by Mikel Horl.

Goose around London / by Mikel Horl.
Creator:
Horl, Mikel
Date:
c1985
Physical Description:
[28] p. : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Whimsical song book for 1814.

No cover image available
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
27, [1] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Specimen of the catalogue of the great sale at Gooseberry Hall : with puffatory remarks.

No cover image available
Creator:
Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798–1854
Date:
[1842]
Physical Description:
xv, [1] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. 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.

No cover image available
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

40. The old English 'squire : "a jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank and free" : a poem in ten cantos / by John Careless, Esq. ; illustrated with plates by one of the family.

No cover image available
Creator:
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799–1864
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
viii, 136 pages, [24] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Arthur Giraffe is better than none!

No cover image available
Creator:
Horl, Mikel
Date:
1989
Physical Description:
[20] p. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Men & manners / by William Shenstone ; selected and introduced by Havelock Ellis.

No cover image available
Creator:
Shenstone, William, 1714–1763
Date:
MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:
[2], xxiii, [3], 97, [3] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Unlikely hero number 00327 / by Mikel Horl.

No cover image available
Creator:
Horl, Mikel
Date:
1991
Physical Description:
[28] p. : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The Oxford book of humorous prose : from William Caxton to P.G. Wodehouse : a conducted tour / by Frank Muir.

The Oxford book of humorous prose : from William Caxton to P.G. Wodehouse : a conducted tour / by Frank Muir.
Date:
1990
Physical Description:
xxxiv, 1162 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

45. The genial genius of George Cruikshank (1792-1878) : a bicentennial exhibition, Sept. 27-Nov. 10, 1992 / catalogue and commentary by Jonathan E. Hill.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hill, Jonathan E
Date:
[1992]
Physical Description:
29 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

46. The world of William Hone : a new look at the Romantic age in words and pictures of the day / compiled, introduced and annotated by John Wardroper.

No cover image available
Creator:
Wardroper, John
Date:
c1997
Physical Description:
viii, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

47. An irreverent and thoroughly incomplete social history of almost everything / Frank Muir.

An irreverent and thoroughly incomplete social history of almost everything / Frank Muir.
Creator:
Muir, Frank
Date:
1976
Physical Description:
xx, 372 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

48. Punch on Europe / edited by Amanda-Jane Doran ; foreword by Miles Kington.

No cover image available
Date:
1992
Physical Description:
191 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

49. The festival of Punch : 1851-1951.

No cover image available
Date:
1951
Physical Description:
xlii, 112, lxxxiii p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Eric Stryker, Yale PhD 2007