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The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses

Lewis Carroll

First published 1903
Publisher Harper & Brothers
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages xiii+248+[40]
Price $3.00


By page-count "The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits" constitutes about 25% of the first part of the book --Poems from "Rhyme and Reason"-- and 15% of the whole.

Referring to the first edition: Illustrations, p.vii-xiii, lists 40 by caption and facing page (plates not included in the pagination):   27 illustrate Poems from "Rhyme and Reason", including 8 for The Hunting of the Snark   2 illustrate Poems from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"   2 illustrate Poems from "Through the Looking-Glass"   9 illustrate Poems from "Sylvie and Bruno" The two illustrations in part three, Poems from "Through the Looking-Glass", are distinct from Newell's 40 illustrations of Looking-Glass (1902).

  • 1st ed.
  • Price from advertisement by the publisher, The Sun (Baltimore) 1903-10-27 p9.
  • HDL (catalog record, one more) provides full view of four copies with plain cloth covers (original?). The latter alone, from Library of Congress, is digitized in color: -- copyright page shows   LC copyright deposit stamp, as received 1903-10-16   "Published October, 1903." -- Contents, p.iii-v -- "Illustrations", vii-xiii, lists 40 (col. frontispiece plus 39 b/w plates not included in the pagination), closes "Decorations by Robert Murray Wright" There is a border decoration on every printed page except the title leaf.
  • Contents listed below (2019-10-23) are the two longest poems in the collection, both from the first of its four parts. See the collection record.

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses 1906 Harper & Brothers Unknown Collection vii+247