The Great Book of Humour

768pp, black and white frontispiece and many further line drawings in text.  Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine.  Top edge sprayed red.  Red and white patterned endpapers.  8vo.  Cloth a little tired, gently rubbed at corners and spine ends, mild ridge to spine.  Previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper (which has offset to facing page).  Hint of toning to pages and some mild signs of fingering. A collection of fifty humorous tales by various authors including A J Allen, Bartimeus, Agatha Christie and A A Milne, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Armstrong, Arnold Bennett, W W Jacobs, Edith Nesbit, Stephen Leacock, Dorothy Parker, P G Wodehouse, and more.