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Rhyme? and Reason?

Lewis Carroll

First published 1883
Publisher Macmillan and Co.
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art A. B. Frost
Pages xii+214
Price 7/-

  • 17 contents, mainly poetry
  • The contents are poems, or collections of poems as some have enumerated parts. There are some editorial notes in square brackets but only "The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits" contains a prose preface.
  • This contains "The Hunting of the Snark" and the 1911 collection Phantasmagoria and Other Poems does not; otherwise their contents match in name and sequence.
  • This is sometimes mistakenly identified with the 1869 Phantasmagoria and Other Poems or with the 1911 collection of the same name, but it matches neither and those two differ.

  • 1st ed., or simultaneous UK and US Published for the 1883 Christmas season in both London and New York, apparently from newspapers (But see LCCN, below, and compare {{LCCN|43040023}} as 1884.)
  • First publication of 4 main contents among 17 --from a preliminary note, p[ix]
  • Briefly reviewed 1883-12-22 in Manchester Guardian p9 "Christmas Books: VII" and N-Y Tribune p6 "Christmas Books"; both as from "Macmillan and Co." (no price)
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover -- front cover light green with gold decoration and small circumscribed illustration, evidently the main Phantasmagoria character by Frost -- title page credits 65 and 9 illustrations by Frost and Holiday, states price