G. Legman - The Limerick. 1700 Examples, with Notes, Variants and Index
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G. Legman - The Limerick. 1700 Examples, with Notes, Variants and Index - Paris - Les Hautes Études - 1953 - 1st edition - [xiv],[2],[520] pp - Paperback - 15,5 x 22,5 cm.
Condition: Good - without dust jacket, cover somewhat browned, inevitable reading creases on the spine. Neat copy.
Anthology with extensive collection of erotic limericks; dirty jokes in rhyme in English, compiled by Gershon Legman (1917-1999). With list of sources, bibliography, index of rhyming words and index by name.
"This is the largest collection of limericks ever published, erotic or otherwise", divided into chapters such as 'Strange Intercourse', 'Excrement', 'Sex Subtitutes', 'Motherhood', 'Prostitution', 'Diseases', 'Organs', 'Abuses of the Clergy', 'Buggery', 'Chamber of Horrors', 'Virginity' and 'Zoophily'.
¶ Unchanged reprints were published until well into the 1970s, but this is the FIRST EDITION of this standard work of scatological verse and scandalous rhymes taken from books (such as 'The Pearl') from 1870 to 1952 and oral tradition, recorded between 1950 and 1952.
