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Poetry - Humorous Genre
Books in the Poetry - Humorous genre:
A Book of Nonsense (1846)
This first edition was published in two volumes. Each includes thirty-six limericks printed on the rectos only. Save for the volume indication, the covers are the same.
Author(s):
Derry Down Derry
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
The Book of Ballads (1849)
Author(s):
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Bon Gaultier
Theodore Martin
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Alfred Henry Forrester
A Book of Nonsense (1855)
This second edition was published in one volume. The illustrations were redrawn on the lithographic stones, and the limericks are now lettered in the now-familiar five-line style.
Author(s):
Derry Down Derry
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Day and Night Songs; and The Music Master. A Love Poem (1860)
Author(s):
William Allingham
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Hughes
John Everett Millais
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A Book of Nonsense (1861)
Enlarged one-volume third edition contains forty-three new limericks, but three have been dropped from the earlier editions. The plates have been engraved on wood and the text is letterpress.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
The Comical Cat (1865)
A humorous poem similar to Old Mother Hubbard.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1866)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
John Tenniel
A Book of Nonsense (1866)
This enlarged one-volume seventeenth edition contains forty-three new limericks, but three have been dropped from the earlier editions. The plates have been engraved on wood and the text is letterpress. This edition was hand colored.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
A Gaping-Wide-Mouth Waddling Frog (1866)
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
A Gaping-Wide-Mouth Waddling Frog (1866)
This is the reissue of this nonsense poem.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Puck on Pegasus (1868)
A collection of poems from Punch. This is the fifth edition. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank
Richard Doyle
John Leech
Phiz
John Tenniel
Et al
Phantasmagoria (1869)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
A Book of Nonsense (1870)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Child Life: A Collection of Poems (1871)
An anthology of poetry intended for children, selected by a poet.
Author(s):
John Greenleaf Whittier
Illustrator(s):
Various
The Merrie Heart (1871)
Author(s):
M. E. G.
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Et al
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871)
The author’s second book of nonsense includes The Owl and the Pussy-cat. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. (1872)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1872)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
John Tenniel
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits (1876)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Henry Holiday
How Columbus Found America (1877)
A burlesque history of Columbus' first voyage to America in verse and pictures. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Palmer Cox
Illustrator(s):
Palmer Cox