Product Description
Hardcover in dustjacket, 1983, this is a BCA ( book Club Associates) Edition in the same year as the Penguin Edition, with different cover art .
Illustrated internally by Robin Jacques,
A mix of bawdy, filty and x-rated limericks lie side by side with child friendy , academic and artsy efforts- with contributions from some of the greatest writers in literature - Swinburne, Dante, Joyce, Lear, Auden, Betjeman,Dylan Thomas, and a huge range of folk and anonymous efforts.
Plus an essay on the origins of the form, the development of it, and the various spin offs of the form.