The Faber Book of Comic Verse (Signed copy)

First edition, fourth printing. Hardback, bound in brown cloth with gilt titling to spine. 19 × 12.5cm, 388pp. Signed and dedicated by Michael Roberts to the half-title. A wonderful selection of comic verse from the fifteenth century through to the twentieth, with poets including Hilaire Belloc, E C Bentley, Byron, C S Calverley, Lewis Carroll, G K Chesterton, Edward Lear, Ronald Knox, and many more, and of course, limericks. The compiler was a polymath, being a poet, writer, scientist, mathematician, critic and broadcaster, and who made his living through teaching. He is perhaps best remembered for his editing of The Faber Book of Modern Verse, one of a number of anthologies he edited for a variety of publishers.Condition: A good copy. The cloth binding is a little dull and bumped to the corners. Inner biding secure, pages tanned due to the wartime economy paper but remaining in good strong readable condition.