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  • The wit of the civil service / compiled by Edward Inglis ; cartoons by Giles.

    • Text
    • London : L. Frewin, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 81-3362Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • British and other jokes; recalled, recounted or composed by A. C. H. Newman.

    • Text
    • Kingswood, Surrey [Eng.] Elliot Right Way Books [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFC 71-1068Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Black Country stories.

    • Text
    • Tipton (Staffs.), Black Country Society, 1969.
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 72-2080Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Middle English humorous tales in verse.

    • Text
    • New York, Gordian Press, 1971.
    • 1971-1913
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 72-5159Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The bal masqué! by Count Chicard. Illustrated by Cham & Henning.

    • Text
    • London, D. Bogue, 1848.
    • 1848
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGS-Res. (English) 72-478Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • The laughtermakers: a quest for comedy.

    • Text
    • London, Owen, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 72-6166Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Cap and bell: Punch's chronicle of English history in the making, 1841-61; collected and edited by Susan and Asa Briggs.

    • Text
    • London, Macdonald and Co., 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFG 74-39Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Jemmy Buck's Witty jester; or, The merry mortals companion ... To which is added, A beautiful collection of entire new conundrums, rebusses and riddles ...

    • Text
    • London, Printed for J. Cooke [ca. 1779]
    • 1779
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Arents S 0797Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • A banquet of iests; or, Change of cheare. Being a collection of moderne jests, witty jeeres, pleasant taunts, merry tales. The 4th impression, with many additions.

    • Text
    • London, Printed for R. Royston, 1634.
  • A banquet of jests; or, Change of cheare. Being a collection, of moderne iests, witty ieeres, pleasant taunts, merry tales. The second part newly published.

    • Text
    • London, Printed by M. Flesher for R. Royston, 1633.
    • 1633
  • A banquet of ieasts; or, Change of cheare. Being a collection of moderne jests, witty jeeres, pleasant taunts, merry tales. Neuer before imprinted.

    • Text
    • London, Printed for R. Royston, 1630.
    • 1630
  • A banquet of jests; or, A collection of court, camp, colledge, citie, country iests. In two bookes. The 6th ed., much enl. for the delight of the reader.

    • Text
    • London, Printed for R. Royston, 1640.
    • 1640
  • The field of nonsense.

    • Text
    • [Folcroft, Pa.] Folcroft Library Editions, 1973.
    • 1973-1952
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 74-7400Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Punch guide to good living.

    • Text
    • London, Coronet, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 75-6523Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • In character; a kind of living scrapbook; extracts from the scripts by John Warren and John Singer; illustrated by Stanley Franklin, foreword by Donald Zec.

    • Text
    • [London], Futura Publications [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWES (Emery, D) 75-2460Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Merry passages and jeasts : a manuscript jestbook / of Sir Nicholas Le Strange ; edited and with an introd. by H. F. Lippincott.

    • Text
    • Salzburg : Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, Universität Salzburg, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 76-442Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • There was a young wench ...

    • Text
    • London, Tandem [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text (S) *Z-2491 no. 1-15Offsite
  • The big book of wit and laughter.

    • Text
    • London, Wolfe, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 76-10337Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Make 'em laugh: a comedian's handbook. With additional material by Johnny Dennis.

    • Text
    • London, Wolfe, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 76-5863Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The triumph of wit : a study of Victorian comic theory / by Robert Bernard Martin.

    • Text
    • Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 76-6076Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Collapse of stout party : Victorian wit and humour / Ronald Pearsall.

    • Text
    • London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, c1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 77-2408Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • English humour / J. B. Priestley.

    • Text
    • London : Heinemann, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 77-349Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The goodies book of criminal records.

    • Text
    • London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 77-343Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Milligan book of records : games, cartoons and commercials / [by] Spike Milligan and Jack Hobbs.

    • Text
    • Walton-onThames : M. and J. Hobbs ; London : [Distributed by] Joseph, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 77-3783Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Rutland dirty weekend book / [by] Eric Idle ; [illustrated by Ken Cox] ; without an introduction by Prince Charles.

    • Text
    • London : Eyre Methuen, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFG 77-259Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Max Miller Blue Book, Compiled by Barry Took. Illus. by Trog.

    • Text
    • [London, Robson Books, c1975]
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWFH 77-1514Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Pick of Punch, edited by William Davis.

    • Text
    • London, Hutchison, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 77-1033Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Joe Miller's jests; or, The wits vade-mecum. With a new introd. by Robert Hutchinson.

    • Text
    • New York, Dover Publications [1963]
    • 1963-1739
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 77-11588Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • A C. mery talys.

    • Text
    • [London, Empryntyd by J. Rastell, 1526]
    • 1526
  • A C. mery talys.

    • Text
    • [London, J. Rastell, 1525?]
    • 1525
  • An irreverent and thoroughly incomplete social history of almost everything / Frank Muir.

    • Text
    • New York : Stein and Day, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 78-2439Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Tom Hood's comic annual for 1874. With 23 pages of illus. by the Brothers Dalziel.

    • Text
    • London, Published at the Fun Office [1873].
    • 1873
    • 2 Items
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    Text Arents S 1302Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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    Text (Hood's. 1874)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Poetry and humour from Cowper to Clough / Mark Storey.

    • Text
    • London : Macmillan, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 79-8353Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Bon-mots of Samuel Foote and Theodore Hook / edited by Walter Jerrold; with grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley.

    • Text
    • London : J. M. Dent, 1894.
    • 1894
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Arents S 1525 Shelved with Arents S1510Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Bon-mots of Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold/ edited by Walter Jerrodl; with grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley.

    • Text
    • London: J. M. Dent, 1893.
    • 1893
    • 1 Item
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    Text Arents S 1510Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Bon-mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan/ edited by Walter Jerrold; with grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley.

    • Text
    • London : J. M. Dent and Company ..., 1893.
    • 1893
    • 2 Items
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    Text Pforz BPSE (Smith, S. Bon-mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan)Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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    Text Arents\S 1516Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Yorksher speyks.

    • Text
    • Newcastle upon Tyne, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFK 80-123 no. 1-2, 1971Offsite
  • Punch [microform].

    • Text
    • [London, Punch Publications Ltd., etc.]
    • 1841-2002
    • 76 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *ZAN-14064 v. 294-295 (Jan. 1988-Dec. 1988)Schwarzman Building - Microforms Room 315

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    Text *ZAN-14064 v. 296-297 (Jan. 6, 1989-Dec. 29, 1989)Schwarzman Building - Microforms Room 315

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    Text *ZAN-14064 v. 300-301 (Jan. 2, 1991-Apr. 3, 1992)Schwarzman Building - Microforms Room 315

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  • The Cigarette. 1898-1901

    • Text
    • [London: W. Lucas, 1898-1901]
    • 1898
    • 1 Item
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    Text Arents S 1572 v. 1, no. 1Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Mr. Mathews at home / by Richard L. Klepac.

    • Text
    • London : Society for Theatre Research, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWES (Mathews, C.) 82-1498Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Monty Python, complete and utter theory of the grotesque / edited by John O. Thompson.

    • Text
    • London : BFI Publishing, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 84-5815Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • English humour for beginners / George Mikes ; illustrated by Walter Goetz.

    • Text
    • London : Deutsch, 1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 83-5488Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The complete works of Shakespeare and Monty Python : volume one, Monty Python.

    • Text
    • London : Methuen, 1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 86-1159Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Almanack of the month : a review of everything and everybody / edited by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett.

    • Text
    • London : Punch office, 1846.
    • 1846
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Arents BIP (A Beckett, G. Almanack 1846) 84-2Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • The right joke for the right occasion / by Kevin Goldstein-Jackson.

    • Text
    • Kingswood, Surrey : Elliot Right Way Books, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 84-552Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Nightcaps and nightmares : ghosts with a touch of humour / edited by Peter Haining.

    • Text
    • London : W. Kimber, 1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 84-7838Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Stand by for blasting / by Derek Robinson ; drawings by Vic Wiltshire.

    • Text
    • Abson, Wick, Bristol [Avon] : Abson Books, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 84-3881Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The tin-pot foreign general and the old iron woman / Raymond Briggs.

    • Text
    • London : H. Hamilton, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text HKT+ 85-190Offsite
  • The language of humour / Walter Nash ; foreword by Randolph Quirk.

    • Text
    • London ; New York : Longman, 1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 85-5747Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Deep joy : master of the sproken [sic] word / Stanley Unwin.

    • Text
    • Whitby, Yorkshire, England : Caedmon of Whitby, c1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 88-7075Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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