HUMOUR AND HUMANITY

Thornton Butterworth, London, 1937, 1^st.  Hard cover, 254 pages including Bibliography and Index.  Very good; green cloth the black lettering and logo on front board, black lettering on spine that shows a bit of sunning.  Light corner and spine end wear; binding sound.  Dust jacket worn with tears and losses along edges and corners, larger losses at spine ends.  Interior clean and unmarked.  Book # 184 in The Home University Library Of Modern Knowledge series.  ‘The author has given to this book the title Humour and Humanity, rather than the obvious and simple title Humour, in order to emphasize his opinion that the essence of humour is human kindliness.  It is this element in humour which has grown from primitive beginnings to higher forms: which lends to humour the character of a leading factor in human progress, and which is destined still further to enhance its utility to mankind.’ (by Stephen Leacock from Preface)