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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 352310
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
London : Macmillan and Co., 1876.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
"London : R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, Printers, Bread Street Hill"--T.p. verso.
Includes 1 p. publisher's advertisements following main sequence.
"Bound by Burn & Co."--Binder's label inside back cover, lower left.
This is one of 20 dark blue and gold bindings made especially for Carroll. Cf. Williams, Madan & Green.
Inscribed by Carroll to his younger sister Henrietta.
Library's copy housed in blue cloth 4-flap folder inside 1/2 blue morocco and blue cloth slipcase.
Description
xi, 83, [1] p. : ill. ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
"Henrietta H. Dodgson with the best love of the author. Aug. 1, 1876"--In brown pen on half-title page.
Provenance
Henrietta H. Dodgson; bookplate of J. Enrique Zanetti; from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Binding
Bound in pictorial dark blue cloth stamped in gold; all edges gilt.
Classification
Department