The Hunting of the Snark. Illustrated by Henry Holiday (1911)
Book ID: 65254
Price: €65.00
The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits. With Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday. London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. Reprint. Pp xii, 83, [2]. Red cloth boards, title in gilt to spine. Light shelf-wear to covers & spotting to endpapers. A very good copy.
Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem, written between 1874 and 1876, borrowed the setting and several characters from his “Through the Looking Glass” and followed a bizarre crew in their search of a whimsical creature.
It was first published in 1876.
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