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Punch Volume 16 (1849)

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A British humor, satire and news magazine, famous for its illustrations, including those first designated as ‘cartoons.’

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
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Punch Volume 17 (1849)

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A British humor, satire and news magazine, famous for its illustrations, including those first designated as ‘cartoons.’

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
Et al

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Punch Volume 18 (1850)

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A British humor, satire and news magazine, famous for its illustrations, including those first designated as ‘cartoons.’

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
Et al

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Punch Volume 19 (1850)

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A British humor, satire and news magazine, famous for its illustrations, including those first designated as ‘cartoons.’

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
Et al

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Cranford (1853)

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A collection of short stories about the shabby genteel society of a small English town, modeled on the author’s hometown of Kelmsford. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Mrs. Gaskell
Illustrator(s): None

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The Cornhill Magazine (1861)

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Richard Doyle contributed to this popular literary magazine during 1861 and 1862.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
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The Uncommercial Traveller (1861)

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This is the first edition of sketches written during the author’s nighttime walks through London. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): None

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The Uncommercial Traveller (1866)

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This is the second, cheap, enlarged edition of Dickens’ essays and tales produced by his nighttime wanderings through London. It includes a frontispiece. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): G. J. Pinwell

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (1867)

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Twain heard the title story told in a saloon in Angels Camp, one of the gold mining towns in California. Includes a total of forty-one pieces which had earlier appeared in newspapers. Read online at Archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): None

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Dealings with the Fairies (1867)

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A collection of stories including ‘The Light Princess’ about a princess who losses her gravity. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Arthur Hughes

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On the Cards: Routledge’s Christmas Annual (1867)

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The frontispiece is the only illustration by Walter Crane for this miscellany. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane
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How Jessie Was Lost (1868)

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A young girl runs away from her nurse at the park and is taken to the keeper’s house where her loud weeping attracts her parents. Read for free online at Toronto Public Library.... View More

Author(s): Lucy Crane
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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Annie and Jack in London (1869)

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An illustrated tour of London in the 1860’s. Read for free online at the University of Florida.

Author(s): Lucy Crane
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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Burlesques: Novels by Eminent Hands (1869)

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Includes Jeames’s Diary, Adventures of Major Gahagan, A Legend of the Rhine, The History of the Next French Revolution, Cox’s Diary and Rebecca and Rowena. There were many other editions in the collected works of Thackeray. But Doyle appe... View More

Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
William Makepeace Thackeray

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King Gab’s Story Bag (1869)

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Fifteen new fairy stories. The Blue Pip and the Fairy is likely the best of them. Read for free online at Google Books.... View More

Author(s): Heraclitus Grey
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance (1871)

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Two stories, neither of which is autobiographical. The author later bought up the plates and destroyed them. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

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The Favorite Holiday Book for Boys (1872)

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An anthology. Read for free online at the University of Florida.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane
Et al

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Child Life in Prose (1873)

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An anthology of prose intended for children, selected by a poet.

Author(s): John Greenleaf Whittier
Illustrator(s): Various

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St. Nicholas (1873)

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Founded in 1873, this popular magazine was edited by Mary Mapes Dodge until her death in 1905. It published many well known and popular children’s authors, including Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Joel Chandler Harris and Mark Twain. It ceas... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Various

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Sweet Violets (1873)

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Four improving stories. Read for free online at the University of Florida.

Author(s): Mrs. Mackarness
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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