HISTORY OF FARTING

'At a contest for farting in Bute, one lady's exertion was cute. It won the diploma for foetid aroma, and three judges were felled by the brute.' 'I say there', says the Admiral, 'Do you know you just farted in front of my wife?' 'Terribly sorry, Sir,' comes the unabashed reply 'I didn't realise it was her turn!' The Bart Collection on the History of Farting was started by Benjamin Bart on discovering several cases in his grandmother Emily's cedar chest. The collection encompasses all aspects from the place of farts in culture through the ages, to an A-Z of classic farts and includes sections on Le Petomane, France's greatest farter whose performances impressed Le Moulin Rouge, and on the Farta from Sparta, the old rugby club favourite immortalised in 12-verse epic limerick. Here are royal, ping-pong, presidential, incense, immaculate, burning and car farts and more, plus a physiology for the more medically minded, and limericks galore for those who love to guffaw. 160pp, period engravings.