A book ofEdward Lear's limericks that comedian Ronnie Barker changed to make funnier hassold for £3,600 at auction.The Two Ronnies star wrote his own versions of thepoems alongside Lear's in The Book of Nonsense, first published in 1846.
Dominic Winter Auctioneers said it had been bought bya private buyer at the sale in South Cerney, Gloucestershire.
The book, which is signed and dated November 2001,had been estimated to make about £1,500.
Ronnie Barker, who died in 2005 aged 76, wasapparently disappointed by the poet's use of the same word at the end of thefirst and last lines, so made his own additions.
Among them was an introductory limerick he wrote,calling the verses "boring and drear".
It reads "There was an old fossil named Lear,Who's verses were boring and drear. His last lines were worst - just the sameas the first! So I've tried to improve on them here."
The auctioneer's website described the book as,"an extraordinary and unique item, associating two British masters ofcomic language and wordplay."
The buyer was a private collector from Scotland, the auctioneersaid.
At the same sale a 1924 first edition of a collectionof short stories by Agatha Christie, Poirot Investigates, was sold for £34,000.It had been estimated to make £3,000 - £5,000.
Auctioneer Chris Albury said: "We knew it was avery, very rare dust jacket featuring a picture of Poirot, and we couldn't findan example of the book with a jacket ever having come up at auction before.
"But it proved to be even rarer than that, andmost of the specialists had never even seen one in decades of dealing."
Source: BBC
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