Os reis do RISO.../ As leis do SISO!

De CANTOS, Paulo. Os reis do RISO.../ As leis do SISO! 212 pp. 5 illustrations. 8vo, publisher's wrappers. Lisbon: Póvoa de Varzim (Portugal): Tip. Livraria Povoense, ND. A spectacular example of eccentric modernist book making from the little-known Portuguese educator and amateur printer Paulo de Cantos who lived from 1892 to 1979. A collection of aphorisms about personality, based on the essay collection Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, published in 1900 by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Although there are only 5 of de Cantos's illustrations, the entire book is a typographical jeu d'esprit. NOT LISTED IN OCLC