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Brotherton Collection12
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Herbert Read Collection3
Leeds Russian Archive2
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wit and humor23
anecdotes3
comedy2
english literature2
erotic literature2
latin literature2
american poetry1
chapbooks, scottish1
english poetry1
ethics1

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Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of (1671-1713)3
Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)2
Congreve, William2
Congreve, William (1670-1729)2
Academie Francaise1
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)1
Bidstrup, Herluf1
Bowyer, Jonah1
Bowyer, Jonah (1722-)1
Boyer, Abel (1667-1729)1

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The witty and entertaining exploits of George Buchanan, commonly called the King's Fool : to which is added, Daft Watty's ramble to Carlisle

Graham, Dougal (1724-1779)

[Between ca. 1830 and 1850?]

Anonymous. Attributed to Dougal Graham. Ill. on t.p. References: Fairley, J. A. Dougal Graham and the chap-books by and attributed to him (1914).

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The Scotch haggis : a selection of choice bon mots, Irish blunders, repartees, anecdotes, &c

[Between ca. 1830 and 1850?]

No. 37 of a series. (Number printed at foot of t.p.). Ill. on t.p. Two-line rhyme on t.p.

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Humour in verse : an anthology

Slater, W E

1937

Includes index.

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Essai sur l'usage de la raillerie et de l'enjoûment dans les conversations qui roulent sur les matieres les plus importantes. Traduit de l'anglois

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of (1671-1713); Effen, Justus van (1684-1735)

1710

Title page vignette. "Catalogue des livres françois, anglois & latins qui se trouvent à la Haye chez Henri Scheurleer" (8pp.) at end.

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My life and hard times

Thurber, James (1894-1961)

[1933]

Illustrated lining papers.

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Not 1983

1982

Cover title.

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Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times (v.2)

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of (1671-1713)

1732

Contents: Vol.I. A Letter concerning Enthusiasm. Sensus Communis; an Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour. Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author -- Vol II. An Inquiry concerning Virtue and Merit. The Mo...

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O segredo do humor

Vega, Celestino F de la

1963

Includes bibliographical references.

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Jokes and their relation to the unconscious

Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Strachey, James (1887-1967)

[1960]

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Huumorit ja satiiri

Bidstrup, Herluf; Bidstrup, Herluf

1963

Added t.p. in Russian: Satira i ︠i︡umor.

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