mike wilson mused: > > Hi, > > Anders Hultman wrote: > > > Could you please send it to me off list? > > For those with a penchant for this type of poetry, I recommend "The > Limmerick - the famous Paris edition" (no author/editor) ISBN > 8148-0699-6 Library of Congress card number 78-56301 > > Hours and hours of eyestreamingly funny entertainment. Disgustingly > filthy in places, though. It is an extremely honest (read: > unexpurgated) attempt to trace the history of the genre. > > mike
If it's the volume I think it is, the author is probably one G. Legman (although that's almost certainly a psudonym). There's also a fairly good book on limericks written by one of the Baring-Gould family - also responsible, amongst other things, for the wonderful "Annotated Sherlock Holmes", and, IIRC, the well-known hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers".
