174pp. Red cloth-covered boards. 8vo. Spine ends lightly rubbed. Small tape stains on the endpapers from dust jacket cover, previous owner's details on the front free endpaper (dated 1965), pages 52 and 53 have some heavy tanning on the top edge (likely from newspaper clipping having been laid-in) but otherwise internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
The Clarke lectures (1956), defining and distinguishing satire from comedy, primitive and popular forms, satire in verse, prose, novel and theatre and analysis of great English satirists.
