English wit and humor books

The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue

Percival Leigh

Percival Leigh’s The Comic English Grammar presents itself as a tongue‑in‑cheek guide to the quirks of…

Happy-Thought Hall

F. C. Burnand

The work is a comic sketch of a group of acquaintances wrestling with the absurdities of planning a grand…

Terribly Intimate Portraits

Noël Coward

Terribly Intimate Portraits is a collection of whimsical sketches that blend autobiographical diary entries…

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

F. Anstey

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. is a comic sketchbook that strings together a series of episodic misadventures of a…

Nonsense Books

Edward Lear

The work opens with a generous encomium from the Victorian critic John Ruskin, who crowns Edward Lear’s…

The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings

Mark Lemon

The Jest Book is a compendium of English wit, assembled by an unnamed compiler who declares his purpose to…

The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe

This volume is a curated anthology of English‑language humorous verse, spanning from medieval poets such as…

The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook

Theodore Edward Hook

The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood A New and Complete Edition

Thomas Hood

The work is a comprehensive edition of Thomas Hood’s comic poems, assembled to showcase the breadth of his…

Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century

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

The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels

Thomas Ingoldsby

The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Jerome K. Jerome

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 Works of Thomas Hood; Vol. 01 (of 11) Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, With All the Original Illustrations

Thomas Hood

The Comic Almanack, Volume 1 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

George Cruikshank's Omnibus

George Cruikshank

The True History of Tom & Jerry or, The Day and Night Scenes, of Life in London from the Start to the Finish!

Hindley, Charles; Egan, Pierce; Moncrieff, W. T.

Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors.

Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788

Anonymous

The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Jerome K. Jerome

Joe Miller's Jests, with Copious Additions

The Works of Thomas Hood; Vol. 02 (of 11) Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, With All the Original Illustrations

Thomas Hood

Nonsense Songs

Edward Lear

The Comic Latin Grammar: A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue

Percival Leigh