Bab Ballads
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The Bab Ballads is a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. The poems take their name from Gilbert’s childhood nickname. He later began to sign his illust
One of Gilbert's illustrations for "Gentle Alice Brown"
1898 edition of The Bab Ballads, with which are included Songs of a Savoyard
Fun (magazine)
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Fun was a Victorian weekly humorous magazine, first published on 21 September 1861 in competition with Punch.
Bab Ballads
…otherwise adapted. Early history Frontispiece of The Bab Ballads, 1868 Gilbert himself explained how The Bab Ballads came about: In 1861 the magazine Fun was started under the editorship of Mr. H. J. Byron. With much labour I turned out an article three-quarters of a column long, and sent it to the editor…
Later front page, 1886