Punorama: Or, The best of the worst : Victorian puns - Hardcover

Hillier, Bevis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0950215961 ISBN 13: 9780950215969

Publisher: Whittington Press, 1974

Synopsis

Printed in an edition limited to 750 numbered copies. Butcher no.8 . The Victorian puns selected and introduced by Bevis Hillier. The Introduction describes different types of puns, such as the Reversal Pun, the Cipher Pun, the Perfect or Imperfect Homophone and the Translingual Pun. Each page of the rest of the book is devoted to a single, often raucous but always lively image and two-lined joke, such as, "What ought to be done with crooked-legged soliders? They ought to be disbandied." Chapter heading and captions printed in violet. Title page printed in violet and black. Dust jacket printed in deep violet and black. Spine of dust jacket slightly faded. 17, 30 pages. paper-covered boards with stiff paper dust jacket. large 8vo..

Edition details

• Publisher: Whittington Press
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0950215961
• ISBN 13: 9780950215969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English