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Pre-1923 Humourous Literature
=============================
Steven K. Baum
v0.9, 2015-04-13
:doctype: book
:toc:
:icons:
:numbered!:
[preface]
Biography and Reference
-----------------------
*The beauties of Pindar: being selections from the various works of that
eccentric author with biographical memoir of his life and writings* (1807,
240) - Peter Pindar & Alexander Campbell -
https://books.google.com/books?id=fE4hAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=fE4hAAAAMAAJ+]
*Essay on Irish Bulls* (1808, 280) - Richard Lovell Edgeworth & Maria Edgeworth - https://books.google.com/books?id=lvo_AAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=lvo_AAAAYAAJ+]
*Lectures on the English comic writers* (1819, 343) - William Hazlitt -
https://books.google.com/books?id=XPchAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=XPchAAAAMAAJ+]
*The Works of William Hogarth: Including the Analysis of Beauty Elucidated by
Descriptions, Critical, Moral, and Historical, Founded on the Most Approved
Authorities, to which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life* (1837) - Thomas
Clerk & William Hogarth
* *Vol. 1* (1837, 160) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=YTM-AQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=YTM-AQAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. 2* (1837, 140) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=vjQ-AQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=vjQ-AQAAMAAJ+]
*An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank* (1840, 59) - William Makepeace
Thackeray -
https://books.google.com/books?id=nDIWAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=nDIWAAAAYAAJ+]
*Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray:
Comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of
George the Third* (1851, 496) - Thomas Wright & Robert Harding Evans -
https://books.google.com/books?id=p_kjAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=p_kjAAAAMAAJ+]
*Satire and satirists* (1854, 235) - James Hannay -
https://books.google.com/books?id=WdpPAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=WdpPAAAAYAAJ+]
*A dictionary of old English plays* (1860, 299) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=DZEUAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=DZEUAAAAQAAJ+]
*The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures* (1867,
341) - William Makepeace Thackeray -
https://books.google.com/books?id=jWpO3xQPmv4C[+https://books.google.com/books?id=jWpO3xQPmv4C+]
*The Works of James Gillray, the Caricaturist: With the History of His Life
and Times* (1873, 376) - Thomas Wright & James Gillray -
https://books.google.com/books?id=R8xeAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=R8xeAAAAcAAJ+]
*The Humorous Chap-books of Scotland, Part I* (1873, 156) - John Fraser -
https://books.google.com/books?id=R3IQAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=R3IQAAAAYAAJ+]
*The Humorous Chap-books of Scotland, Part II* (1873, 288) - John Fraser -
https://books.google.com/books?id=TFkOAAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=TFkOAAAAIAAJ+]
*Thackerayana* (1875, 492) - Joseph Grego -
https://books.google.com/books?id=Tu8LAQAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=Tu8LAQAAIAAJ+]
*A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art* (1875, 494) -
Thomas Wright -
http://books.google.com/books?id=Pos741KQFtcC[+http://books.google.com/books?id=Pos741KQFtcC+]
*History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Volume
1* (1878, 360) - Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange -
https://books.google.com/books?id=2JoTgjlMZ9MC[+https://books.google.com/books?id=2JoTgjlMZ9MC+]
*History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Volume
2* (1878, 352) - Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange -
https://books.google.com/books?id=UgsIAQAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=UgsIAQAAIAAJ+]
*****
I) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1[Burlesque--Parody--The 'Splendid Shilling'--Prior--Pope--Ambrose
Philips--Parodies of Gray's Elegy--Gay]
II) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA22[Defoe--Irony--Ode to the Pillory--The 'Comical Pilgrim'--The 'Scandalous
Club'--Humorous Periodicals--Heraclitus Ridens--The London Spy--The British
Apollo]
III) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA44[Swift--'Tale of a
Tub'--Essays--Gulliver's Travels--Variety of Swift's Humour--Riddles--Stella's
Wit--Directions for Servants--Arbuthnot]
IV) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA62[Steele--The
Funeral--The Tatler--Contributions of Swift--Of Addison--Expansive
Dresses--'Bodily Wit'--Rustic Obtuseness--Crosses in Love--Snuff-taking]
V) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA77[Spectator--The
Rebus--Injurious Wit--The Everlasting Club--The Lovers' Club--Castles in the
Air--The Guardian--Contributions by Pope--'The Agreeable Companion'--The
Wonderful Magazine--Joe Miller--Pivot Humour]
VI) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA99[Sterne—His
Versatility—Dramatic Form—Indelicacy—
Sentiment and Geniality—Letters to his Wife—Extracts
from his Sermons—Dr. Johnson]
VII) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA113[Dodsley—'A Muse
in Livery'—'The Devil's a Dunce'—
'The Toy Shop'—Fielding—Smollett]
VIII) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA127[Cowper—Lady
Austen's Influence—'John Gilpin'—'The
Task'—Goldsmith —'The Citizen of the World'—
Humorous Poems—Quacks—Baron Munchausen]
IX) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA141[The Anti-Jacobin—
Its Objects and Violence—'The
Friends of Freedom'—Imitation of Latin Lyrics—The
'Knife Grinder'—The 'Progress of Man']
X) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA150[Wolcott—Writes
against the Academicians—Tales of a
Hoy—'New Old Ballads'—'The Sorrows of Sunday'—
Ode to a Pretty Barmaid—Sheridan—Comic Situations—
'The Duenna']
XI) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA164[Southey—Drolls of
Bartholomew Fair—The 'Doves'—
Typographical Devices—Puns—Poems of Abel Shufflebottom]
XII) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA175[Test]
XIII) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA184[Test]
XIV) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA196[Test]
XV) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA207[Test]
XVI) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA216[Test]
XVII) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA226[Test]
XVIII) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA241[Test]
XIX) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA276[Test]
XX) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA285[Test]
XXI) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA307[Test]
XXII) https://books.google.com/books?id=IS9aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA339[Test]
*****
*George Cruikshank: The Artist, the Humourist, and the Man, with Some Account
of His Brother Robert, a Critico-bibliographical Essay* (1878, 79) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=MxBEAQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=MxBEAQAAMAAJ+]
*Rowlandson the Caricaturist: A Selection from His Works, with Anecdotal
Descriptions of His Famous Caricatures and a Sketch of His Life, Times, and
Contemporaries, Volume 1* (1880, 378) - Joseph Grego & Thomas Rowlandson -
https://books.google.com/books?id=AnhLAQAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=AnhLAQAAIAAJ+]
*Rowlandson the Caricaturist: A Selection from His Works, with Anecdotal
Descriptions of His Famous Caricatures and a Sketch of His Life, Times, and
Contemporaries, Volume 2* (1880, 454) - Joseph Grego & Thomas Rowlandson -
https://books.google.com/books?id=zHlLAQAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=zHlLAQAAIAAJ+]
*The Life of George Cruikshank: In Two Epochs, Volume 1* (1882, 284) - Blanchard
Jerrold -
https://books.google.com/books?id=L8wYAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=L8wYAAAAYAAJ+]
*The Life of George Cruikshank: In Two Epochs, Volume 2* (1882, 392) -
Blanchard Jerrold -
https://books.google.com/books?id=-nMFAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=-nMFAAAAMAAJ+]
*Studies in Jocular Literature: A Popular Subject More Closely Considered*
(1890, 230) - William Carew Hazlitt -
https://books.google.com/books?id=aOPS2FjyYS0C[+https://books.google.com/books?id=aOPS2FjyYS0C+]
*A Memoir of George Cruikshank* (1891, 144) - Frederic George Stephens &
William Makepeace Thackeray -
https://books.google.com/books?id=92vPNJ6WcooC[+https://books.google.com/books?id=92vPNJ6WcooC+]
*English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century: How
They Illustrated and Interpreted Their Times...* (1893, 427) - Graham Everitt
- https://books.google.com/books?id=aPcjAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=aPcjAAAAMAAJ+]
*The History of Punch* (1895, 592) - Marion Harry Spielmann
- https://books.google.com/books?id=e8pBAQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=e8pBAQAAMAAJ+]
*Skelton's Satirical Poems in Their Relation to Lydgate's Order of Fools, Cock
Lorell's Bote, and Barclay's Ship of Fools* (1899, 59) - Albert Rey -
https://books.google.com/books?id=1ToVAQAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=1ToVAQAAIAAJ+]
*The Modern Adam; Or, How Things are Done* (1899, 308) - Arthur William À
Beckett -
https://books.google.com/books?id=usE_AAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=usE_AAAAYAAJ+]
*The Rise of Formal Satire in England Under Classical Influence* (1899, 264) -
Raymond Macdonald Alden -
https://books.google.com/books?id=yNQxAQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=yNQxAQAAMAAJ+]
*The Hitherto Unidentified Contributions of W. M. Thackeray to "Punch": With a
Complete and Authoritative Bibliography from 1843 to 1848* (1900, 349) -
William Makepeace Thackeray & Marion Harry Spielmann -
https://books.google.com/books?id=G4cPAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=G4cPAAAAMAAJ+]
*The À Becketts of "Punch": Memories of Father and Sons* (1903, 333) - Arthur
William À Beckett -
https://books.google.com/books?id=u3JAAAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=u3JAAAAAIAAJ+]
*Suppressed plates, wood engravings, &c., together with other curiosities
germane thereto: being an account of certain matters peculiarly alluring to
the collector* (1907, 254) - George Somes Layard -
https://books.google.com/books?id=dO0YAAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=dO0YAAAAIAAJ+]
*Shirley Brooks of Punch: His Life, Letters, and Diaries ...* (1907, 598) -
George Somes Layard & Shirley Brooks -
https://books.google.com/books?id=jPgDAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=jPgDAAAAYAAJ+]
*Recollections of a Humourist, Grave and Gay* (1907, 417) - Arthur William À
Beckett -
https://books.google.com/books?id=0B8tAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=0B8tAAAAYAAJ+]
*Verse Satire in England Before the Renaissance* (1908, 245) - Samuel Marion
Tucker -
https://books.google.com/books?id=NjwOAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=NjwOAAAAYAAJ+]
*Political Satire in English Poetry* (1910, 244) - Charles William
Previté-Orton -
https://books.google.com/books?id=1AgEAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=1AgEAAAAYAAJ+]
*Lord Byron as a Satirist in Verse* (1912, 228) - Claude Moore Fuess -
https://books.google.com/books?id=yldaAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=yldaAAAAMAAJ+]
*Latin Satirical Writing Subsequent to Juvenal* (1915, 165) - Arthur Harold
Weston -
https://books.google.com/books?id=BRMlAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=BRMlAAAAMAAJ+]
*Forty years of "Spy"* (1915, 351) - Sir Leslie Ward -
http://books.google.com/books?id=kw0NAAAAYAAJ[+http://books.google.com/books?id=kw0NAAAAYAAJ+]
*A Study of the Plays of Thomas D'Urfey, with a Reprint of A Fool's
Preferment* (1916, 97) - Robert Stanley Forsythe -
https://books.google.com/books?id=kt4vAQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=kt4vAQAAMAAJ+]
*Satire in the Victorian Novel* (1920, 335) - Frances Theresa Russell -
https://books.google.com/books?id=QSxLAAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=QSxLAAAAIAAJ+]
*The satirical element in the American novel* (1922, 89) - Ernest Jackson Hall
- https://books.google.com/books?id=vMcvAQAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=vMcvAQAAIAAJ+]
Anthologies
-----------
*Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy: Being a Collection of Merry
Ballads and Songs, Old and New. Fitted to all Humours, having each their
proper Tune for either Voice, or Instrument: Many of the Songs being New Sett*
(1712)
*Vol. 1, 4th Ed.* (1712, 351) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=11tcAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=11tcAAAAcAAJ+]
*Vol. 2, 3rd Ed.* (1712, 329) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=7FtcAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=7FtcAAAAcAAJ+]
*Vol. 3* (1719, 355) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=NgtEAQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=NgtEAQAAMAAJ+]
*Vol. 4, 2nd Ed.* (1709, 341) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=BFxcAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=BFxcAAAAcAAJ+]
*Vol. 5* (1719, 357) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1xLAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1xLAAAAYAAJ+]
*Vol. 6* (1720, 379) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=VXRWAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=VXRWAAAAcAAJ+]
*Miscellanies* (1736-1751) - Jonathan Swift & Alexander Pope & John Arbuthnot &
John Gay & Thomas Parnell & Matthew Pilkington
* *Vol. 1, 6th Ed.* (1751) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=p2VGAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=p2VGAAAAcAAJ+]
* *Vol. 2* (1751) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=rWVGAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=rWVGAAAAcAAJ+]
* *Vol. 3* (1736) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=NoBZAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=NoBZAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 4* (1742) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=wZfRAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=wZfRAAAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. 5* (1736) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=Z31ZAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=Z31ZAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 6* (1751) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=xGVGAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=xGVGAAAAcAAJ+]
* *Vol. 7, 4th Ed.* (1751) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=wf0eAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=wf0eAAAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. 8, 4th Ed.* (1751) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=0WVGAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=0WVGAAAAcAAJ+]
* *Vol. 9, 4th Ed.* (1751) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=1WVGAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=1WVGAAAAcAAJ+]
* *Vol. 10* (1751) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=2mVGAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=2mVGAAAAcAAJ+]
* *Vol. 11* (1751) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=3mVGAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=3mVGAAAAcAAJ+]
*Remarkable satires: The causidicade, The triumvirade, The porcupinade, The
processionade, The 'piscopade, The scandalizade, and The pasquinade, with
notes variorum* (1760, 171) - McNamara Morgan & William Kenrick & Porcupinus
Pelagius -
https://books.google.com/books?id=lngDAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=lngDAAAAYAAJ+]
*Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces and Entertainments Performed on the
British Stage* (1792)
* *Vol. 1* (1792, 371) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=risUAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=risUAAAAQAAJ+]
*****
I) *The Guardian* - David Garrick
II) *The Apprentice* - Arthur Murphy
III) *The Anatomist, or, the Sham Doctor* - Edward Ravenscroft
IV) *Florizel and Perdita, or, the Sheep-shearing* - altered from Shakespeare
V) *High Life below Stairs* - David Garrick
VI) *The Mock Doctor, or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd* - Henry Fielding
VII) *Taste* - Samuel Foote
VIII) *The Uphosterer, or, What News?* - Arthur Murphy
IX) *Lethe, or Aesop in the Shades* - David Garrick
X) *The Knights* - Samuel Foote
XI) *The Deuce is in Him* - George Coleman
XII) *The Sultan, a Musical Entertainment* - Moses Mendoz
XIII) *The Chaplet, A Musical Entertainment* - Moses Mendoz
XIV) *Miss in the Teens, or, The Medley of Lovers* - David Garrick
*****
*Vol. 2* (1792, 365) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=2CsUAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=2CsUAAAAQAAJ+]
*Vol. 3* (1792, 402) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=9SsUAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=9SsUAAAAQAAJ+]
*Vol. 4* (1792, 392) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=GSwUAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=GSwUAAAAQAAJ+]
*Vol. 5* (1792, 380) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=NywUAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=NywUAAAAQAAJ+]
*Vol. 6* (1792, 366) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=jSwUAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=jSwUAAAAQAAJ+]
*****
I) *The Lame Lover* - Samuel Foote
II) *The Ephesian Matron* - Isaac Bickerstaff
III) *Cross Purposes* - William O'Brien
IV) *The Waterman; or, The First of August* - Charles Dibdin
V) *A Trip to Scotland* - Williame Whitehead
VI) *May-Day; or, The Little Gipley* - David Garrick
VII) *The Theatrical Candidates* - David Garrick
VIII) *The Ghost*. From Mrs. Centliver's 'Man Bewitched; or, The Devil to do
About Her'
IX) *The Absent Man* - Isaac Bickerstaff
X) *The Cooper* - Dr. Arne
XI) *The Romp*. Altered from 'Love in the City', by Isaac Bickerstaff
XII) *The Maid of the Oaks*. Altered into an After-piece of two acts, by a
Gentleman of the Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh
XIII) *Amintas*
XIV) *Lilliput* - David Garrick
XV) *The Recruiting Serjeant* - Isaac Bickerstaff
XVI) *The Rehearsal*. By the Duke of Buckingham. Altered into an After-piece
of three acts, by Mr. Richard Wilson of the Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh
*****
*The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most
Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, that Appear in the
Newspapers and Other Publications* - George Cruikshank & Robert Cruikshank
(1797-?)
* *Vol. 1* (1797, 415) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=dz8oAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=dz8oAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 2* (1798, 403) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=PEAoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=PEAoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 3* (1799, 396) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=akAoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=akAoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 4* (1800, 396) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=o0AoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=o0AoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 5* (1801, 396) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=TNQXAQAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=TNQXAQAAIAAJ+]
* *Vol. 6* (1802, 396) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=gDUoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=gDUoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 7* (1803, 396) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=pDUoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=pDUoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 8* (1804, 396) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=1zUoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=1zUoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 9* (1805, 396) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=CjYoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=CjYoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 10* (1806, 396) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=StcXAQAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=StcXAQAAIAAJ+]
* *Vol. 11* (1807, 396) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTYoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTYoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 12* (1808, 396) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=lTYoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=lTYoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 13* (1809, 396) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=xTYoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=xTYoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 14* (1810, 348) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=2jsoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=2jsoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 15* (1811, 348) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=7TsoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=7TsoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 16* (1812, 372) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=DTwoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=DTwoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 17* (1813, 368) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=AXY9AAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=AXY9AAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 18* (1814, 368) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=29wXAQAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=29wXAQAAIAAJ+]
*The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining
Pamphlets and Tracts, as Well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the
Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford. Interspersed with
Historical, Political, and Critical Annotations, by the Late William Oldys,
Esq. and Some Additional Notes by Thomas Park, F.S.A.* (1808-?)
* *Vol. I* (1808, 547) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=wfKL0pXKhWIC[+https://books.google.com/books?id=wfKL0pXKhWIC+]
* *Vol. II* (1809, 618) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=shU5AQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=shU5AQAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. III* (1809, 570) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=0xU5AQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=0xU5AQAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. IV* (1809, 595) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=Mgg5AQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=Mgg5AQAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. V* (1810, 614) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=kwg5AQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=kwg5AQAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. VI* (1810, 611) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=BORBAQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=BORBAQAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. VII* (1811, 641) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=zwg5AQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=zwg5AQAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. VIII* (1811, 631) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=Egk5AQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=Egk5AQAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. IX* (1812, 599) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=KQk5AQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=KQk5AQAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. X* (1813, 542) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=rQk5AQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=rQk5AQAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. XI* (1810, 557) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=60sNAAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=60sNAAAAIAAJ+]
*A Collection of Farces and Other Afterpieces: Which are Acted at the Theatres
Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Hay-Market* (1809) - Mrs. Inchbald
* *Vol. 1* (1809, 337) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=7zdIAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=7zdIAAAAMAAJ+]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=7zdIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1[*The Child of
Nature*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=7zdIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA39[*The Wedding Day*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=7zdIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA69[*The Midnight Hour*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=7zdIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA111[*Raising the Wind*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=7zdIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA147[*Matrimony*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=7zdIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA187[*Ella Rosenberg*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=7zdIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA225[*The Blind Boy*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=7zdIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA263[*Who's the Dupe?*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=7zdIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA299[*Love a la Mode*]
* *Vol. 2* (1809, 319) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=1GEzAQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=1GEzAQAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. 3* (1809, 304) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=IpFIAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=IpFIAAAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. 4* (1809, 288) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=zP8yAQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=zP8yAQAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. 5* (1815, 366) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=9G4LAAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=9G4LAAAAIAAJ+]
* *Vol. 6* (1809, 325) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=yzlIAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=yzlIAAAAMAAJ+]
* *Vol. 7* (1809, 315) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=MWYzAQAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=MWYzAQAAMAAJ+]
*The Ancient British Drama. In Three Volumes* (1810) - William Miller, Pub.
* *Vol. 1* (1810, 595) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ+]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1[*The Four P's*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA23[*Ferrex and Porrex*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA46[*The Returne from
Pernassus*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA69[*Damon and Pithias*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA100[*Gammer Gurton's
Needle*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA132[*Alexander and
Campaspe*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA157[*Edward II*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA193[*The Hier*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA219[*The Bird in a Cage*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA250[*The Jew of Malta*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA280[*The Wits*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA318[*Sir John Oldcastle
(Part the First)*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA350[*The Life and Death
of Thomas Lord Cromwell*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA371[*London Prodigal*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA397[*The Puritan; or,
The Widow of Watling Street*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA426[*A Yorkshire Tragedy*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA440[*George a Greene,
the Pinner of Wakefield*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA459[*Jeronimo (Part the
First)*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA475[*The Spanish
Tragedy; or, Hieronimo is Mad Again*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA518[*The Honest Whore
(Part the First)*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=UVtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA559[*The Honest Whore
(Part the Second)*]
* *Vol. 2* (1810, 614) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=dltVAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=dltVAAAAcAAJ+]
* *Vol. 3* (1810, 598) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=oFtVAAAAcAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=oFtVAAAAcAAJ+]
*The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most
Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, that Appear in the
Newspapers and Other Publications* - George Cruikshank & Robert Cruikshank
* *Vol. 1* (1823, 556) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=OjMoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=OjMoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 2* (1824, 568) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=izMoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=izMoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 3* (1825, 560) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=EzQoAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=EzQoAAAAYAAJ+]
* *For 1828* (1829, 268) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=bD7PAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=bD7PAAAAMAAJ+]
*The British satirist: Comprising the best satires of the most celebrated
poets, from Pope to Byron. Accompanied by original critical notices of the
authors* (1831, 388) - C. P. Fessenden -
https://books.google.com/books?id=dMbPFYO50M8C[+https://books.google.com/books?id=dMbPFYO50M8C+]
*The Minor drama: a collection of the most popular petit comedies,
vaudevilles, burlettas, travesties, etc.; with critical remarks, also the
stage business, casts of characters, costumes relative positions, etc., and
each drama embellished with an illustrative engraving, Volume 3* (1848,
various) - Anon. -
https://books.google.com/books?id=YOX-j228FhYC[+https://books.google.com/books?id=YOX-j228FhYC+]
*A Supplement to Dodsley's Old Plays* (1853) - James Orchard
Halliwell-Phillipps & Robert Dodsle
* *Vol. I - Chester plays* (1853, 247) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=ok3igLZAgqQC[+https://books.google.com/books?id=ok3igLZAgqQC+]
* *Vol. II - Coventry mysteries. Marriage of wit and wisdom. Moral play of wit
and science* (1853, 133) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=OEJAmtCdZakC[+https://books.google.com/books?id=OEJAmtCdZakC+]
* *Vol. III - Ralph Roister Doister. Gorbudoc. Timon. Sir Thomas More. Patient
Grissil* (1853, 101) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=53bzXMXwcsQC[+https://books.google.com/books?id=53bzXMXwcsQC+]
* *Vol. IV - The taming of a shrew. First sketch of the Merry wives of Windsor.
First sketches of second and third parts of Henry VI. True tragedy of Richard
III* (1853, 171) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=zbqQPlMoKyoC[+https://books.google.com/books?id=zbqQPlMoKyoC+]
*The Humorous Poetry of the English Language: From Chaucer to Saxe.
Narratives, satires, enigmas, burlesques, parodies, travesties, epigrams,
epitaphs, translations, including the most celebrated poems of the
anti-Jacobin, rejected addresses, the Ingoldsby Legends, Blackwood's Magazine,
Bentley's Miscellany, and Punch...* (1867, 689) - James Parton -
https://books.google.com/books?id=hPspAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=hPspAAAAYAAJ+]
*Works* (1869-1873) - Thomas Hood
* *Vol. 1* (1869, 464) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=fA41AAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=fA41AAAAMAAJ+]
...
* *Vol. 10* (1873, 583) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=rBs1AAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=rBs1AAAAMAAJ+]
*Curiosities of Street Literature, Comprising "cocks," Or "catch Pennies": A
Large and Curious Assortment of Street-drolleries, Squibs, Histories, Comic
Tales in Prose and Verse, Broadsides on the Royal Family, Political Litanies,
Dialogues, Catechisms, Acts of Parliament, Street Political Papers, a Variety
of "ballads on a Subject," Dying Speeches and Confessions. To Which is
Attached the All-Important and Necessary Affectionate Copy of Verses* (1871,
244) - Charles Hindley -
https://books.google.com/books?id=gTjXAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=gTjXAAAAMAAJ+]
*A Select Collection of Old English Plays. Originally Published by Robert
Dodsley in the Year 1744. Fourth Edition; Now first Chronologically Arranged,
Revised and Enlarged, with the Notes of All the Commentators, and New Notes* (1874) - Robert Dodsley & W. Carew Hazlitt
* *Vol. 1* (1874, 432) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=kzhf2YqguvcC[+https://books.google.com/books?id=kzhf2YqguvcC+]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=kzhf2YqguvcC&pg=PA1[*Interlude of the
Four Elements*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=kzhf2YqguvcC&pg=PA51[*The Tragi-Comedy
of Calisto and Melibaea*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=kzhf2YqguvcC&pg=PA93[*Everyman: A Moral
Play*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=kzhf2YqguvcC&pg=PA143[*Hickscorner*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=kzhf2YqguvcC&pg=PA197[*The Pardoner and
the Friar*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=kzhf2YqguvcC&pg=PA239[*The World and the
Child*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=kzhf2YqguvcC&pg=PA277[*God's Promises*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=kzhf2YqguvcC&pg=PA323[*The Four P.P.*]
** https://books.google.com/books?id=kzhf2YqguvcC&pg=PA389[*A New Interlude,
Thersites*]
* *Vol. 2* (1874, 399) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=7Hr7EmD7T9gC[+https://books.google.com/books?id=7Hr7EmD7T9gC+]
* *Vol. 3* (1874, 360) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=pmOLnyUo6acC[+https://books.google.com/books?id=pmOLnyUo6acC+]
* *Vol. 4* (1874, 396) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=KM6G6FDmJNoC[+https://books.google.com/books?id=KM6G6FDmJNoC+]
* *Vol. 5* (1874, 419) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=oCpEAAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=oCpEAAAAIAAJ+]
* *Vol. 6* (1874, 599) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=RXgLAAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=RXgLAAAAIAAJ+]
* *Vol. 7* (1874, 513) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=NnYLAAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=NnYLAAAAIAAJ+]
* *Vol. 8* (1874, 470) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=8ncLAAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=8ncLAAAAIAAJ+]
* *Vol. 9* (1874, 581) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=mngLAAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=mngLAAAAIAAJ+]
** How to Choose a Good Wife from a Bad
** The Return from Parnassus
** Wily Beguiled
** Lingua
** Miseries of Enforced Marriage
* *Vol. 10* (1874, 568) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=2czVJM4NmhYC[+https://books.google.com/books?id=2czVJM4NmhYC+]
* *Vol. 11* (1874, 587) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=zXULAAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=zXULAAAAIAAJ+]
* *Vol. 12* (1874, 635) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=z3ULAAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=z3ULAAAAIAAJ+]
* *Vol. 13* (1874, 527) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=xe4tAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=xe4tAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 14* (1874, 543) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=RTpEAAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=RTpEAAAAIAAJ+]
*****
After the lapse of about half a century since the issue of the last edition of
Dodsley's Select Collection of Old Plays,1 and the admittance of that work
into the honourable rank of scarce and dear books, it seemed a desirable thing
to attempt, with such additional improvements as might be practicable or
expedient, a revival of a publication which has been a favourite with the
lovers of our early drama since its first publication more than a hundred
years ago. Between 1744, the date of its original appearance, and 1825, it
passed through three editions; and it may be remarked that the tendency in
each successive edition has been to remodel the undertaking on the principle
of rejecting plays which from time to time have been lifted up (so to speak)
into the collected works of their respective authors, and to substitute for
them plays which have either suffered unmerited obscurity in original and rare
editions, or have lain so far scattered about in various other collections;
and in the present instance that principle has been strictly adherred to.
It is desirable that it should be seen precisely in what manner, and to what
extent, the edition now offered differs from its predecessors as regards the
contents. The points of variation are three: 1. Omissions; 2. Additions of
pieces not included in the former editions; 3. Additional plays now first
reprinted from the originals. The first division comprises the following
productions which, since the last republication of Dodsley, have been taken up
into the collected editions of their respective authors:—
...
The second and third characteristics of our book are the Additions, which, as
we have stated, are of two kinds. In the first place, we may enumerate the
dramas new to Dodsley's collection, though previously edited in a variety of
forms :—
...
The remaining feature, recommending the undertaking to indulgent notice, is
perhaps the most important and interesting. Subjoined is a list of the
dramatic compositions which have never hitherto appeared in any series of Old
English Plays, and of which the originals are of the utmost rarity :—
1) *The Tragi-Comedy of Calisto and Melibaoa* (1520) +
2) *Nice Wanton, An Interlude* (1560) +
3) *An Interlude, Called Like Will to Like* (1568) - Ulpian Fulwella +
4) *The History of Jacob and Esau* (1568) +
5) *The Marriage of Wit and Science* (1570) +
A strictly chronological arrangement has been adopted. Such a plan appeared to
be the most desirable and the most obvious, as it facilitates our appreciation
of the gradual and progressive development of dramatic composition. If it may
be thought to labour under any disadvantage, it is perhaps that it has the
effect of throwing into a single consecutive series, without discrimination,
pieces which are mere interludes, and others which are characterised by higher
qualities, and aspire to belong to the regular drama. But the evil will be
found not to be of a very serious kind, and it will disappear after the
earlier volumes of the collection.
In fixing the order of sequence, the place of a production in the series has
been occasionally determined by the date at which it is believed to have been
written or presented, rather than by the date at which it left the printer's
hands. Such is the case with Heywood's "Pardoner and Friar," and the anonymous
interlude of "New Custom ;" as well as with "Ealph Roister Doister," and
"Gammer Gurton's Needle," all of which may be taken to belong to a period some
time anterior to their publication.
A leading characteristic of the collection as now reconstructed is the. great
preponderance of pieces, of which the authors are not known, or by authors who
have not left more than one or two dramatic productions. It was judged
expedient, in the interest of purchasers, to give a preference to these single
or anonymous plays, as it will probably not be long before the works of every
voluminous writer are collected. Those of Jonson, Shirley, Peele, Greene,
Ford, Massinger, Middleton, and Chapman, have already been edited, and
Brome's, Decker's, Heywood's, and Glapthorne's will follow in due course. To
all these the new Dodsley will serve as a supplement and companion.
The editor felt himself in a position of somewhat special difficulty and
delicacy, when it became necessary to consider the question of retaining or
excluding the prefatory matter attached to the impressions of this work in
1744 and 1780. A careful and impartial perusal of that matter made it evident
that the prudent course, on the whole, was to reject these prolegomena. There
was no alternative but their entire preservation or their entire suppression;
for any arbitrary alterations or curtailments would have been liable to
objection or censure. In the first place, there was Dodsley's own preface,
chiefly occupied by a sketch of the history of our stage, but based on the
most imperfect information, and extremely unsatisfactory, if not misleading.
Then there was, like Pelion heaped on Ossa, Isaac Reed's introduction, more
elaborate and copious than Dodsley's, yet far from complete or systematic, and
not improved by the presence of an appendix or sequel. Reed, of course, went
over the same ground as Dodsley had already traversed with inferior ability
and less ample resources at his command, and there were repetitions, as might
be expected, of the same particulars. There seemed to be two forms of
weakness—redundancy on the one hand and meagreness on the other. Again, all
the information collected by Dodsley and Reed was to be found elsewhere, with
innumerable improvements and corrections of mistakes, the subject itself more
methodically handled, and the early annals of the English drama and theatre
almost presented to the public view under a new aspect, by Mr Collier, in his
well-known work printed in 1831, a publication heartily welcomed and
appreciated at the time of its appearance and long after, and even now a
literary monument, of which it may be said that, with whatever defects it may
possess, it reflects as much credit on its author as a far more perfect
performance brought to completion at the present day under more favourable
auspices could reflect on any one else. It was a long advance on anything
which had been attempted so far in the same direction; and to reproduce, in
the face of Mr Collier's volumes, the obsolete and superseded labours of
Dodsley and even Eeed, seemed to be a waste of space which might be far more
beneficially occupied by additional texts.
As regards the orthography, it has to be pointed out that, in consonance with
the system adopted by Dyce and others, it has been reduced to our modern
standard; but at the same time it should be understood that the language of
the writers has in every case been held sacred. Than the spelling which occurs
in early plays and tracts, more espedaily perhaps those of a popular
character, nothing can well be more capricious and uncouth; but the
phraseology and terms are on all accounts of value. Not a word, therefore, nor
even part of a word, has suffered alteration; and wherever there was a doubt,
as there might be in preparing for the press once more such an extensive
collection of pieces, it was thought better to err on the side of caution.
Weever, the author of "Funeral Monuments," retained with scrupulous exactitude
the ancient spelling ipsissimis verbis; and such a plan might be advisable and
convenient with sepulchral inscriptions or records; but in the matter before
us what an editor had principally, if not almost exclusively, to consider, was
the preservation in their fullest integrity of the language of the time and
the sense of the playwright.
The first and second editions of Dodsley's collection appear, notwithstanding
what is asserted to the contrary in Reed's preface, to have been superintended
with no very high degree of care, and the late Mr Dyce, indeed, used to
observe that the same criticism was applicable to the edition of 1825. But the
latter, with the fullest admission of its defects, is certainly marked by
great improvements on its predecessors in more than one way. The labours of
Hawkins1 and Dilke 2 reflect considerable honour upon those gentlemen.
It is almost superfluous to observe that the preceding editions, the last and
best not excepted, present a very large number of statements, opinions, and
readings, which more recent and more exact information has shown to be
erroneous. All these
mistakes have been carefully rectified, wherever the knowledge and experience
of the editor enabled him to detect them.
A certain number of corruptions and obscurities remain, which it passed the
editor's ingenuity to eradicate or clear away. The printed remains of our
early drama have come down to us, for the most part, in a sadly mutilated
state, and the attempt to amend and restore the text to its original purity
will, it may be safely affirmed, never succeed more than to a very imperfect
extent. Even the late Mr Dyce's revised edition of Shakespeare, 18G8, abounds
with misprints and other distortions of the writer's sense; and we must
abandon in some cases the hope of ever arriving at the true readings. So it is
with the miscellaneous assemblage of dramatic productions here brought
together. A great deal has been done by a succession of editors to reducje the
errors of the printer or copyist to a minimum; but, after all, there are
places where it would require the assistance of the Sphinx to supply a chasm,
or rectify a palpable mistake.
The work, in its present state, should assuredly have some degree of interest
and worth; for it offers in one collected body the best specimens of dramatic
literature which the English language
affords, castigated and enriched by some of our best commentators and critics.
In these volumes, as now rearranged, it is trusted that very few uncollected
plays of real importance will be found wanting; but as an enterprise of this
kind can never amount to more than a selection, as it purports to be, it
appeared judicious, in making the choice, to give the preference to such
pieces as either illustrated the manners of the period, or marked the gradual
development of the dramatic art.
The only basis on which the present editor can rest, so far as he is aware,
the slightest claim to credit is the attention which he has bestowed on the
rearrangement of the collection as it now stands; the conscientious and
vigilant supervision of the whole matter here brought together—prefaces,
texts, and notes—and the correction of errors on the part of his predecessors,
occasioned by a variety of causes. In carrying out even this unambitious
programme, there was a fair share of labour and difficulty, and, of course, it
has involved the addition of a new crop of notes scattered up and down the
series, as well as the occasional displacement of certain illustrative remarks
founded on wrong data.
*****
*The Bagford Ballads: Illustrating The Last Years of the Stuarts, Part 1*
(1878, 1-468) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=1VQJAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=1VQJAAAAQAAJ+]
*The Bagford Ballads: Illustrating the Last Years of the Stuarts, Part 2*
(1878, 469-1131) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=CjU_AAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=CjU_AAAAYAAJ+]
*****
Come, buy my ballads, Bagford-ballads buy! +
Black-letter broadsides, saved from Father Time; +
Full of rude cuts, but ripe for History, +
That oft finds nourishment in rabble-rhyme. +
He who would trace the ages pass'd away, +
And see old English homesteads round him rise, +
Fill'd with the men and women of their day, +
Must list these echoes of their melodies. +
...
*****
*The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Memoir* (1879, 564) - John Gay &
Samuel Johnson -
https://books.google.com/books?id=iiRkA0ovggQC[+https://books.google.com/books?id=iiRkA0ovggQC+]
*Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century* (1882, 486) - John Ashton -
https://books.google.com/books?id=BJ8zAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=BJ8zAAAAMAAJ+]
*****
*Introduction*
Although these Chap-books are very curious, and on many accounts interesting,
no attempt has yet been made to place them before the public in a collected
form, accompanied by the characteristic engravings, without which they would
lose much of their value. They are the relics of a happily past age, one which
can never return, and we, in this our day of cheap, plentiful, and good
literature, can hardly conceive a time when in the major part of this country,
and to the larger portion of its population, these little Chap-books were
nearly the only mental pabulum offered . Away from the towns, newspapers were
rare indeed, and not worth much when obtainable—poor little flimsy sheets such
as nowadays we should not dream of either reading or publishing, with very
little news in them, and that consisting principally of war items, and foreign
news, whilst' these latter books were carried in the packs of the pedlars, or
Chapmen, to every village, and to every home.
Previous to the eighteenth century, these men generally carried ballads, as is
so well exemplified in the "Winter's Tale," in Shakespeare's inimitable
conception, Autolycus. The servant (Act iv. sc 3) well describes his stock:
"He hath songs, for man, or woman, of all sizes; no milliner can so fit his
customers with gloves. He has the prettiest love songs for maids; so without
bawdry, which is strange; with such delicate burdens of 'dildos' and
'fadings:'
'jump her' and 'thump her;" and where some stretch-mouthed rascal would, as
it were, mean mischief, and break a foul gap into the matter, he makes the
maid to answer, 'Whoop, do me no harm, good man;' puts him off, slights him,
with 'Whoop, do me no harm, good man.'" And Autolycus, himself, hardly
exaggerate! the style of his wares, judging by those which have come dowq to
us, when he praises the ballads: "How a usurer's wife was brought to bed of
twenty money-bags at a burden; and howl she longed to eat adders' heads, and
toads carbonadoed;" and "of a fish, that appeared upon the coast, on Wednesday
the fourscore of April, forty thousand fathom above water, and sung this
ballad against the hard hearts of maids;" for the wonders of both ballads, and
early Chap-books, are manifold, and bear strange testimony to the ignorance,
and credulity, of their purchasers. These ballads and Chap-books have, luckily
for us, been preserved by collectors, and although they are scarce, are
accessible to readers in that national blessing, the British Museum. There the
Roxburghe, Luttrell, Bagford, and other collections of black-letter ballads
are easily obtainable for purposes of study, and, although the Chap-books, to
the uninitiated (owing to the difficulties of the Catalogue), are not quite so
easy of access, yet there they exist, and are a splendid series—it is
impossible to say a complete one, because some are unique, and are in private
hands, but so large, especially from the middle to the close of the last
century, as to be virtually so.
...
*****
*Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities* (1882, 254) - William T. Dobson -
https://books.google.com/books?id=RFACAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=RFACAAAAQAAJ+]
*Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors*
* *Volume 1* (1884, 192) - G. Olms -
http://books.google.com/books?id=UxIOAAAAMAAJ[+http://books.google.com/books?id=UxIOAAAAMAAJ+]
* *Volume 2* (1885, 280) - G. Olms -
http://books.google.com/books?id=er8PAQAAIAAJ[+http://books.google.com/books?id=er8PAQAAIAAJ+]
* *Volume 3* (1886, 280) - G. Olms -
http://books.google.com/books?id=zb8PAQAAIAAJ[+http://books.google.com/books?id=zb8PAQAAIAAJ+]
* *Volume 4* (1887, 280) - G. Olms -
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZxYOAAAAMAAJ[+http://books.google.com/books?id=ZxYOAAAAMAAJ+]
* *Volume 5* (1888, 324) - G. Olms -
http://books.google.com/books?id=7BQOAAAAMAAJ[+http://books.google.com/books?id=7BQOAAAAMAAJ+]
* *Volume 6* (1889, 346) - G. Olms -
http://books.google.com/books?id=NZ1YAAAAMAAJ[+http://books.google.com/books?id=NZ1YAAAAMAAJ+]
*****
The final volume includes over 100 pages of various bibliographies:
* http://books.google.com/books?id=NZ1YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA224[A bibliography of the parodies of Charles Dickens]
* http://books.google.com/books?id=NZ1YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA323[A bibliography of French parodies]
* http://books.google.com/books?id=NZ1YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA312[Bibliography of scriptural parodies]
* http://books.google.com/books?id=NZ1YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA345[Books and periodicals that deal with parody]
* http://books.google.com/books?id=NZ1YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA282[Books of reference on slang, cant and "argot"]
* http://books.google.com/books?id=NZ1YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA328[Burlesques of educational works]
* http://books.google.com/books?id=NZ1YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA325[English burlesques of the classics]
* http://books.google.com/books?id=NZ1YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA322[Literary forgeries and impostures]
* http://books.google.com/books?id=NZ1YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA179[Mock heroic poems]
* http://books.google.com/books?id=NZ1YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA226[Plays founded on Charles Dickens's novels]
* http://books.google.com/books?id=NZ1YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA331[Theatrical burlesques and travesties]
*****
*The Roxburghe Ballads*
*Vol. 1* (1871, 643) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=udUUAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=udUUAAAAQAAJ+]
* *Vol. 1, Part 2* (1891, 241-496) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=nbEaAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=nbEaAAAAYAAJ+]
*Vol. 2* (1874, 502) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=xJoHAQAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=xJoHAQAAIAAJ+]
*Vol. 3* (1880, 704) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=_dUUAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=_dUUAAAAQAAJ+]
*Vol. 4* (1883, 717) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=c1YJAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=c1YJAAAAQAAJ+]
*Vol. 5* (1885, 776) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=YFYJAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=YFYJAAAAQAAJ+]
*Vol. 6* (1889, 856) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=rtYUAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=rtYUAAAAQAAJ+]
* *Vol. 6, Part 2* (1887, 193-448) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=5yI9AAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=5yI9AAAAYAAJ+]
*Vol. 7* (1890, 885) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=oOIUAAAAQAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=oOIUAAAAQAAJ+]
* *Vol. 7, Part 1* (1890, 1-240) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=jBhEAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=jBhEAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 7, Part 2* (1891, 241-416) -
https://books.google.com/books?id=phhEAAAAYAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=phhEAAAAYAAJ+]
*Amusing Prose Chap-books: Chiefly of Last Century* (1889, 350) - Robert Hays
Cunningham -
https://books.google.com/books?id=A004AAAAIAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=A004AAAAIAAJ+]
*****
I) *The Comical History of the King and the Cobbler*
II) *The Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham*
III) *The History of Thomas Hickathrift*
IV) *The History of Jack the Giant-Killer*
V) *Simple Simon's Misfortunes and His Wife Margery's Cruelty*
VI) *Bamfylde Moore Carew*
VII) *The Comical Sayings of Paddy from Cork*
VIII) *The History of Dick Whittington and His Cat*
IX) *The Mad Pranks of Tom Tram*
X) *A York Dialogue Between Ned and Harry*
XI) *Daniel O'Rourke's Wonderful Voyage to the Moon*
XII) *Mother Bunch's CLoset Newly Broke Open*
XIII) *The Comical History of the Courtier and Tinker*
XIV) *The History of the Four Kings*
XV) *The Penny Budget of Wit and Package of Drollery*
XVI) *The Merry Conceits of Tom Long the Carrier*
XVII) *The Story of Blue Beard*
XVIII) *The Life of Mansie Wauch*
XIX) *The Life and Astonishing Adventures of Peter Williamson*
XX) *The Famous Exploits of Robin Hood*
XXI) *History of Dr. Faustus*
XXII) *The Whole Life and Death of Long Meg*
XXIII) *The Famous History of the Learned Friar Bacon*
XXIV) *The History of the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green*
XXV) *The Pleasant History of Poor Robin the Merry Saddler of Walden*
*****
*Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. A Dictionary, Historical and
Comparative, of the Heterodox Speech of All Classes of Society for More Than
Three Hundred Years, with Synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, Etc.*
(1890-1904) - John S. Farmer
* *Vol. 1* -
http://books.google.com/books?id=UZhBAAAAYAAJ[+http://books.google.com/books?id=UZhBAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 2* -
http://books.google.com/books?id=a6NBAAAAYAAJ[+http://books.google.com/books?id=a6NBAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 3* -
http://books.google.com/books?id=xqJBAAAAYAAJ[+http://books.google.com/books?id=xqJBAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 4* -
http://books.google.com/books?id=raNBAAAAYAAJ[+http://books.google.com/books?id=raNBAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 5* -
http://books.google.com/books?id=7KNBAAAAYAAJ[+http://books.google.com/books?id=7KNBAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 6* -
http://books.google.com/books?id=JKRBAAAAYAAJ[+http://books.google.com/books?id=JKRBAAAAYAAJ+]
* *Vol. 7* -
http://books.google.com/books?id=D6NBAAAAYAAJ[+http://books.google.com/books?id=D6NBAAAAYAAJ+]
*Selections from the British Satirists* (1897, 329) - Cecil Headlam -
https://books.google.com/books?id=JdRLAAAAMAAJ[+https://books.google.com/books?id=JdRLAAAAMAAJ+]