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Author:	W. S. Gilbert
Title:	The "Bab" Ballads
Subtitle:	Complete Edition
Publisher:	David McKay
Country:	USA
Date:	1916
Format:	Hardcover
Class Number:	821.8
Genre:	Poetry, Humour
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Undated; online booksellers give a date of 1916. Compilation of humorous poems written by Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) for the magazine "Fun". Includes illustrations by Gilbert. 310 pages.

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23skidoo 17th May 2022		@annaloog. Neat! Always been a fan of Don Martin's work. I could see how he would have been a fan of Gilbert's humour.



annaloog 10th May 2022		23skidoo - It's my understanding that Don Martin was a member of the NY Gilbert & Sullivan appreciation society, so its appearance in MAD was likely his idea.



23skidoo 9th May 2022		@annaloog It's hard to believe that MAD used to do things like this. But it was quite literary at times! Gilbert probably would have approved as Fun and its contemporary, Punch, were the MAD Magazines of their day!



annaloog 9th May 2022		Gilbert's poem, "Etiquette" (concerning two shipwreck survivors cast up on a desert island), was reprinted in MAD Magazine several decades ago, with illustrations by Don Martin. As I recall (I no longer have the copy), the first stanza goes ... The Ballyshannon! foundered off the coast of Cariboo, And down in fathoms many went the Captain and the crew. Down went the owners, greedy men, whom hope of gain allured — Ah! dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.

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