The Hunting of the Snark - An Agony in Eight Fits
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First edition
London: Macmillan, 1876. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Henry Holiday. ix, [1], 83 pp, [2] p. 22 cm. B&w illustrations. Cloth spine is missing and hinges are cracked. Old book plate on front paste-downwith name "John F Tattersall, , Bishopston, Sussex" [author of Memories of Hurstwood, Burnley, Lancashire: With Tales and Traditions of the Neighborhood (1889); and The Baptism of the Viking and Other Verses] Black end papers. Gilt page edges. Some scattered foxing and age-discolouration throughout. Nine illustrations by Henry Holiday, most with original tissue. All illustrations except one have their original tissue guards present. 83 pages plus page with Printer details, one has Turn over then one page of other works by Lewis Carroll Illustrated by Henry Holiday. First edition, first printing, with "baker" on p. 83 and a single leaf of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's decorative light tan boards with illustrations by Holiday in black, lettered in black, all edges gilt, black endpapers. An attractive copy, rarely found in such nice condition. Taylor 382. In this poem, Carroll returns to the setting of "Jabberwocky," the nonsense poem that was published as part of his 1872 novel "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There". Specifically, "The Hunting of the Snark" tells the story of ten sailors, each of whose name begins with the letter B, who are in search of a fearsome creature known as the "snark" which they fear may be an especially dangerous sort kn
- Publisher: Macmillan
- Year: 1876
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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