Titles To Make You Smile: Foolishness and Nonsense



Tumble-Down Dick, or, Phaeton in the suds [microform] : a dramatic entertainment of walking, in serious and foolish characters : interlarded with burlesque, grotesque, comic interludes : called Harlequin a Pick Pocket : being (it is hoped) the last entertainment that will ever be composed by the Harmonious Seignior Warblerini ; and the scenes painted by the prodigal Mynheer van Bottomplot / [Henry Fielding]. -- Boston : Printed by B. True, at the Columbian Museum Printing Office, 1808.
AEY5655 / MPRINT 3 no. 15013 / Green Library, Microtext.

Nonsence upon sence, or, Sence upon nonsence [microform] : chuse you either or neither : written upon white paper, in a browne study, betwixt Lammas day and Cambridge, in the years aforesayd / by John Taylor. -- London : [s.n.], 1651.
AKK7872 / MFILM 015 4 516:36 / Green Library, Microtext.

The foolish dictionary; an exhausting work of reference to uncertain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures / executed by Gideon Wurdz [pseud.]. -- Boston : J. W. Luce and Company, 1904.
AKP9037 / 817.4 .T74f / Green Library, Stacks.

--submitted by Brian Kunde


Originally published in SUL News Notes, Volume 2, Number 4, January 29, 1993. These titles reflect the compiler's notions of the humorous, wry, ironic or unusual, and should not be construed as reflecting any other opinion or judgment, including the editorial opinion of the original publisher.



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