In 1883 Belford, Clarke and company published the first edition of Peck’s Compendium of Fun. It is a 540 page compilation of stories from Peck’s Bad Boy #1, #2 and Peck’s Fun.

In 1886 two “Peck’s Fun” books were published. One was called Peck’s Compendium of Fun and contained 272 pages of vignettes that originally appeared in the 1883 Belford, Clarke Peck’s Compendium of Fun. The second book, Peck’s Fun, also published by Belford, Clarke contained 276 pages of vignettes that appeared in the earlier Compendium of Fun book. The contents of both the 1886 books were totally different.

The later Compendium of Fun was published by Belford, Clarke and in 1890 by Donohue, Henneberry and Company.
That book is added to the database today and is shown here.

The 1886 Peck’s Fun was published by a number of publishers into the early 1900’s.
Belford-Clarke and Company, Chicago 1883
Frank F. Lovell and Company, New York 1886
Butler Brothers , New York 1889-1890
Donohue, Henneberry and Company, Chicago 1890
John Lovell Company, New York 1891
Morrill, Higgins and Company, Chicago 1892
W. B. Conkey and Company, Chicago 1893-1905
Homewood Publishing Company, Chicago ca.1902-1905

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century humor books which contained the writings of numerous humorists of the era were quite common. Peck was well represented in these volumes. Those titles are listed on this page: http://georgewpeck.com/books.html.

Another book of this genre is now added to the site:

Little Masterpieces of Wit and Humor Edited by Thomas L. Masson.

This is a six volume collection of the works of numerous humorists from the late nineteenth century. It was published by Doubleday, Page and Company. The first edition has a 1903 copyright with a 1904 title page.
Each book is 6 x 4.25.

A later edition was published in 1921 by Doubleday, Page and Company.

George W. Peck’s contribution is in Volume II. Most of the seven page excerpt is taken from Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa, Chapter XIX: His Pa is “Nishiated”.

Conkey was one of the publishers of the Peck books.

The Harvard Series included the following titles:
Peck’s Bad Boy, No. 1 (and His Pa)
Peck’s Bad Boy, No. 2 (and the Groceryman)
Peck’s Fun
Peck’s Sunshine
Peck’s Boss Book
Peck’s Irish Friend
How Private Peck Put Down the Rebellion
American Wit and Humor (Contributions by Peck)