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Author: Carroll, Lewis (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
Illustrator: Henry Holiday
Title: The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
Publisher:Macmillan
Date: 1876
Place: London
Dimensions: 8vo. 19cm x 13cm
xiv + 83pp + iii
1st edition
One of 10000 copies. Lacks "An Easter Greeting" sometimes found loosely inserted.
Pictorial buff cloth boards, all edges gilt, black titles to spine, small chips to tail, rubbing to outer tail end corner of the top board.
Gutters split, rear free endpaper loose. Final leaf of preface, conjugate with contents page, partially loose. Soiling to blank facing 'fit the first' with some offsetting to this latter page. Light offsetting from plate to pp53. Two creases to the corner of the r.f.e.p. Occasional finger marks but overall clean, very good and desirable.
Bookplates of George Rose to front paste down and Michael Scott to f.f.e.p. respectively.