Some Limericks

Pirate edition: the publisher is false, Woolf thinks 1951 publication more likely, the text is the 1939 Obelisk Press edition, the 1,000 copies of the colophon is doubtful. Fifty limericks, according to the title page, 'collected for the use of students, & ensplendour'd with Introduction, Geographical Index, and with Notes Explanatory and Critical' by the compiler. The geographical index runs from Accrington to Zug, one Australian, 'There was a young man of Australia / Who painted his bum like a dahlia ...

Publisher: Nicholson and Whitney [Pirate edition]
Plain wrappers. Fine in dustwrapper sunned on the spine. Woolf A27e, variant dustwrapper.


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