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Humorous Genre
Books in the Humorous genre:
Punch Volume 14 (1848)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Et al
Punch Volume 15 (1848)
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
The Book of Ballads (1849)
Author(s):
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Bon Gaultier
Theodore Martin
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Alfred Henry Forrester
Manners and Customs of Ye Englyshe (1849)
Humorous drawings and texts explaining Victorian Britain to itself. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Percival Leigh
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Punch Volume 16 (1849)
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
Punch Volume 17 (1849)
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
Punch Volume 18 (1850)
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
Punch Volume 19 (1850)
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
Rebecca and Rowena (1850)
Thackeray imagines what comes after the wedding of Ivanhoe and Rowena.
Author(s):
William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
An Overland Journey to the Great Exhibition (1851)
Sixteen comic drawings of visitors on their way to the Great Exhibition printed as a panorama. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Cranford (1853)
Author(s):
Mrs. Gaskell
Illustrator(s):
None
The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson (1854)
A comic look at three Englishmen on the continent, in pictures with gently humorous captions. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Merry Pictures by the Comic Hands of H. K. Browne, Richard Doyle, etc. (1857)
Forty-two humorous plates.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
Richard Doyle
Et al
The Strange Surprising Adventures of the Venerable Gooroo Simple (1861)
Author(s):
Constantine Joseph Beschi
Illustrator(s):
Alfred Crowquill
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
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (1867)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
None
Drawn from Life (1868)
Author(s):
Edward Caswall
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
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
Burlesques: Novels by Eminent Hands (1869)
Author(s):
William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
William Makepeace Thackeray