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[HUMOR]. Four antiquarian English volumes on humor and jest. Including: --REACH, Angus. The Natural History of Humbugs. London: D. Bogue, 1847. Contemporary smooth calf, morocco title label. Text engravings. 126pp. + ads. – The Polite London Jester. London: W. Mason, [n.d., ca. 1820]. Disbound. Color woodcut frontispiece. Paper browned. 36pp. – The Treasury of Wit. London: T. Allman. Ownership label over date. Publisher’s cloth [spine crudely re-taped]. Illustrated with comic engravings. – Scrapiana; or Elegant Extracts of Wit… Fourth Edition. London: J. Allman, 1820. Marbled boards backed with straight-grain morocco. With engraved half-title. 12mo/16mo. Provenance: John Henry Grossman (magician), two vols. with his bookplate.