Humor from Pages For Sages

This First Edition copy of The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum, by Wallace Irwin, With an Introduction by Gelett Burgess (Showing how Vanity is still on Deck, & humble Virtue gets it in the Neck!) was published by Paul Elder & Co. of San Francisco and New York in 1901 and printed by The Tomoye Press. The booklet contains 32… Read more about this item

This First Edition copy of The Comic Almanack for 1838, An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, , containing "All Things Fitting For Such A Work", by Ricdum Funnidos, Gent. and Adorned with a Dozen of "Righte Merrie" Cuts, Pertaining to the Months, and an Hieroglyphic, by George Cruikshank was published by Charles Tilt, Bibliopolist, in Fleet Street and printed by… Read more about this item

This Limited Edition copy of the 1892 Limited Edition of "The Cruikshankian Momus", by The Three Cruikshanks, The Elder Isaac, Robert, and the Great George was published in 1892 in London by John C. Nimmo. This is copy No. 79 of the 520 copies "printed for England and America". The book's title is enhanced by several sub-titles, such as "Pictorial… Read more about this item

This copy of George Cruikshank's Table-Book, Edited by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, is one of a Limited Edition of 300 copies published in 1885 by George Bell and Sons of London. The book is further identified as being Illustrated with Twelve Steel Plates, and One Hundred and Sixteen Engravings on Wood by George Cruikshank – New Edition – With India… Read more about this item

This First Edition copy of The Adventures of Doctor Comicus, or The Frolicks of Fortune - A Comic Satirical Poem for the Squeamish & The Queen, in Twelve Cantos, by a Modern Syntax was published in London by Jaques & Wright of Paternaster Row and printed by J. McGowan and Son for B. Blake of No. 15, Bell Yard, Temple… Read more about this item

This copy of Points of Humour; Illustrated by the Designs of George Cruikshank, (Parts I and II) combines Part I, originally published in 1823, and Part II, originally published in 1824, into a single volume. The book was published in London by C. Baldwyn, Newgate Street, and printed by D. S. Maurice, Fenchurch Street. The book, which measures approximately 6… Read more about this item

This copy of Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments, and Experimental Accidents, Both Successful and Unsuccessful: Communicated by Various Correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. Author of "The Academy for Grown Horsemen"; Together with Most Instructive Remarks thereon, and Answers Thereto, by that Accomplished Genius was published, according to the figures stamped on the book's spine, in London in… Read more about this item