The Faber book of comic verse / by Michael Roberts
1942, First Edition. London : Faber and Faber. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #433963
Physical description; 388 pages ; 19 cm. Contents; Max Adeler (C.H. Clark) -- Canon Alfred Ainger -- Henry Adlrich -- Richard Pepper Arden, Baron Alvanley -- W.E. Aytoun -- Balliol rhymes -- Rev. R.H. Barham -- Jane Barker -- James Beattie -- James Hay Beattie -- Hilaire Belloc -- E.C. Bentley -- Isaac Bickerstaff -- William Blake -- Marguerite Power Blessington -- James Bramston -- W. Bridges-Adams -- Shirley Brooks -- Thomas Brown -- Sir William Browne -- Robert Browning -- Frank Gelett Burgess -- Robert Burns -- Samuel Butler -- John Byrom -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- C.S. Calverley -- Roy Campbell -- George Canning -- Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) -- G.K. Chesterton -- Charles Churchill -- A.H. Clough -- Hartley Coleridge -- S.T. Coleridge -- Mortimer Collins -- W. Congreve -- E.E. Cummings -- Clarence Day -- A. De Morgan -- Charles Dibdin -- T.S. Eliot -- C.D.B. Ellis -- William Empson -- Epitaphs -- Thomas Erskine -- Abel Evans -- Marjory Fleming -- Samuel Foote -- Colin Francis -- J.H. Frere -- David Garrick -- John Gay -- Sir W.S. Gilbert -- A.D. Godley -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Harry Graham -- Robert Graves -- John Gray -- Thomas Gray -- G. Rostrevor Hamilton -- Sir John Harington -- Bret Harte -- Master Heath -- W.E. Henley -- John Heywood -- A.C. Hilton -- Samuel Hoffenstein -- James Hogg -- Thomas Hood -- G.M. Hopkins -- A.E. Housman -- Thomas Hughes -- Sir Hildebrand Jacob -- Richard Jago -- Francis Jeffrey -- C.E.M. Joad -- Samuel Johnson -- John Keats -- B.H. Kennedy -- Benjamin Franklin King -- Hugh Kingsmill -- Rudyard Kipling -- E.V. Knox -- R.A. Knox -- Charles Lamb -- W.S. Landor -- Andrew Lang -- George Granville Lansdowne -- Walter Leaf -- Edward Lear -- H.S. Leigh -- C.C. Leland -- D.B.W. Lewis -- Limericks -- Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M. Grieve) -- W.L. Mansel -- Don Marquis -- Sir Theodore Martin -- James Clerk Maxwell, G.K. Menzies -- Owen Meredith (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton) -- Thomas Moore -- James Appleton Morgan -- Robert Murray -- Ogden Nash -- Charles Neaves -- R.H. Newell -- George Outram -- Edward Henry Palmer -- Henry Parrot -- T.L. Peacock -- William Plomer -- Alexander Pope -- Richard Porson -- Ezra Pound -- W.M. Praed -- Matthew Prior -- Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Henry Reed -- John Wilmot Rochester -- Sir George Rose -- Warham St Leger -- C.P. Sawyer -- Sir Owen Seaman -- P.B. Shelley -- Sir Arthur Shipley -- P.N. Shuttleworth -- W.W. Skeat -- Horace Smith -- James Smith -- Naomi Royde Smith -- Robert Southey -- Sir John Squire -- J.K. Stephen -- James Stephens -- L.A.G. Strong -- Jonathan Swift -- A.C. Swinburne -- J.M. Synge -- Bayard Taylor -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- W.M. Thackeray -- D'Arcy W. Thompson -- H.D. Traill -- Joseph Trapp -- Alaric A. Watts -- Carolyn Wells -- E.G. White -- Rev. Cornelius Whur -- Edward Young. Subjects; English poetry. English wit and humor. Humorous poetry. Humorous poetry, English. English poetry 20th century. American poetry 20th century. English poetry Collections. English wit and humor Collections. Nonsense verses. English poetry (Collections). Humorous poetry, English. English literature.
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