London, England; Bread Street Hill, London, England Macmillan and Company; R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, printer University of Southern California. Libraries
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public domain Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343 USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
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With nine illustrations by Henry Holiday. Frontispiece and full-page plates (printed on one side only) have protective guard sheets and are included in pagination. Includes half-title page and table of contents. Three additional leaves bound in front and five in back one page of advertisements precede additional leaves. Includes one page of ads at the end. Original manuscript illustration by the author bound facing page 54, and autograph letter from Lewis Carroll to Henry Holiday critiquing his designs bound in at end. ❧ Summary: The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll in 1874, when he was 42 years old. It describes "with infinite humor the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature". The poem borrows occasionally from Carroll's short poem Jabberwocky in Through the Looking-Glass (especially the poem's creatures and portmanteau words), but it is a stand-alone work, first published in 1876 by Macmillan. ❧ Contents: Fit The First: The Landing -- Fit The Second: The Bellman's Speech -- Fit The Third: The Baker's Tale -- Fit The Fourth: The Hunting -- Fit The Fifth: The Beaver's Lesson -- Fit The Sixth: The Barrister's Dream -- Fit The Seventh: The Banker's Fate -- Fit The Eighth: The Vanishing. ❧ Bound in full leather with gold tooling on both boards and spine, with gilt edges and marbled end sheets original pictorial, white cloth, embossed and stamped in black retained. ❧ USC Special Collections copy is part of the G. Edward Cassady, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N. Lewis Carroll Collection. This copy includes a letter from Charles Dodgson to Henry Holiday with an original drawing of a beaver tipped in.
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