Author: Lewis Carroll
Title: The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1899. Cloth. A smart later edition of this illustrated nonsense poem from English writer Lewis Carroll. Later edition, original published 1876. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine full-page images. Collated complete. A nonsense poem calling back to the author's earlier poem the Jabberwocky from Through the Looking-Glass (1871). The narrative follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, but the only crewmember to find the Snark quietly vanishes. Written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer. Illustrated by Henry Holiday, an English painter, stained-glass designer, illustrator, and sculptor. In the original red cloth binding with gilt. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot or handling mark. Good . Ill.: Henry Holiday. Good .

Keywords: Hunting Snark Agony Fits Snark Holiday Henry Holiday


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