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Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare

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Sheng Lü

The Book-Hunter at Home

P. B. M. Allan

Allan’s The Book‑Hunter at Home is a practical treatise on the art and business of collecting printed works.

Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century

John Ashton’s work is a meticulously compiled anthology of seventeenth‑century English wit, satire, and…

The £1,000,000 bank-note, and other new stories

Mark Twain

The volume is a collection of Mark Twain’s short‑fiction, gathered under the title The £1,000,000 Bank‑Note,…

The Wonderful "One-Hoss-Shay", and Other Poems

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Roundabout Papers

William Makepeace Thackeray

Roundabout Papers is a loosely structured series of observations that blends travelogue, historical…

Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character And a Memoir of Dean Ramsay by Cosmo Innes

Edward Bannerman Ramsay

The work is a memoir that intertwines the personal history of Edward Bannerman Burnett, later Dean Ramsay of…

Anthologica Rarissima: The Way of a Virgin Being excerpts from rare, curious and diverting books

Anthologica Rarissima: The Way of a Virgin is a privately printed anthology that gathers unexpurgated…

The Tale of Mr. Tod

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Mr. Tod is a lively animal adventure aimed at younger readers, set in a woodland populated by…

Curious Epitaphs, Collected from the Graveyards of Great Britain and Ireland.

William Andrews

William Andrews’ Curious Epitaphs is a nineteenth‑century compilation of unusual grave‑stone inscriptions…

The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers

Saki

The volume gathers the final short stories of Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen‑name Saki, whose…

On an Irish Jaunting-Car Through Donegal and Connemara

Samuel G. Bayne

Samuel G. Bayne’s work is a travelogue that charts a brief, whirlwind tour of Ireland’s northern, western,…

The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels

Thomas Ingoldsby

The Ingoldsby Legends is a collection of witty, macabre tales that sprang from the imagination of Thomas…

La Cintia

Giambattista della Porta

La Cintia è una drammatizzazione barocca di Giambattista della Porta, ambientata a Napoli e strutturata come…

The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

William Shakespeare

The volume you hold is the first of a nine‑part Cambridge edition of Shakespeare’s comedies, presenting The…

The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Jerome K. Jerome

The book presents itself as a collection of “idle thoughts” by a self‑styled idler, offering a series of…

Three men on the bummel

Jerome K. Jerome

Three men on the Bummel is a comic tale that spins a tangled web of domestic squabbles, misguided travel…

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The volume is a collection of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.’s “Autocrat of the Breakfast‑Table” essays,…

Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse

Holman Day

Up Up in Maine is a miscellany of verse that celebrates the everyday grit and humor of New England life.

The Funny Side of Physic Or, The Mysteries of Medicine, Presenting the Humorous and Serious Sides of Medical Practice. An Exposé of Medical Humbugs, Quacks, and Charlatans in All Ages and All Countries.

Addison Darre Crabtre

The work is a sprawling, nineteenth‑century survey of medical practice that blends earnest health advice with…

The Comic Almanack, Volume 2 An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities

Thackeray, William Makepeace; À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott; Mayhew, Henry; Mayhew, Horace; Smith, Albert

The Comic Almanack, Volume 2 is a Victorian‑era miscellany that blends the format of a traditional almanac…

The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I

Charles Lever

The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I is a self‑conscious work of fiction that frames its narrative as a series of…

Sketches by Seymour — Complete

Robert Seymour

Sketches by Seymour" is a mid‑19th‑century compilation of caricatures and short comic pieces that originally…