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The hunting of the snark : an agony in eight fits / by Lewis Carroll ; with nine illustrations by Henry Holiday.

Accession number
PML 352307
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
London : Macmillan and Co., 1876.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
First ed.
"London : R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, Printers, Bread Street Hill"--Colophon.
One page of publisher's advertisements at end.
One of 100 copies in red cloth bound especially for Carroll. Cf. Williams, Madan & Green.
"Bound by Burn & Co."--Binder's label, inside back cover, lower left.
Although Dodgson began photographing Gertrude in the fall of 1876, this photograph apears to be the one taken by a Sandown photographer, Arthur Debenham -- see letters to Mrs. Chataway dated Dec. 9, 1875 and Feb 7, 1876 in Morton Cohen, Letters of Lewis Carroll.
Description
xi, [3], 83, [3] p. : ill. ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
The dedication copy, with the albumen print of Gertrude Chataway in her bathing garb facing the dedicatory poem. The presentation inscription, in purple ink, reads: "Rev. J. and Mrs. Chataway | with Sincere regards | from the Author. | Ap. 3. 1876."
Provenance
Gertrude Chataway and her parents; from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Binding
Publisher's red cloth, gilt-stamped design, all edges gilt; by Burn & Co. (label).
Classification
Department