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Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll')
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- Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll')
- The Hunting of the Snark . . . By Lewis Carroll. London: Macmillan, 1876
- Paper, ink.
8vo (182 x 120 mm). Illustrated by Henry Holiday. Original presentation binding of white cloth, gilt, with gilt-pictorial covers, gilt edges; minor rubbing to spine ends and corners.
Literature
Williams, A Bibliography of the Writings of Lewis Carroll, 31.
Catalogue Note
first edition. presentation copy, , inscribed in Carroll’s hand and usual purple ink, ”Presented to Bennie by the Author, Mar. 1./ 77.“
This book was generally issued in buff cloth with black lettering, but Carroll had some copies specially bound for presentation. He described these special bindings in a letter to Maud Standen in 1877: ”I have had them bound in various coloured cloths with the ship and bell-buoy in gold: e.g. light blue, dark blue, light green, dark green, scarlet (to match Alice), and, what is perhaps prettiest of all, white, i.e. a sort of imitation vellum, which looks beautiful with the gold.“ (Quoted in Williams, p. 20.)