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The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses

Peter Newell

First published October 1903
Type Interior Art

<br> 40 plates from full-page illustrations, color frontispiece and 39 b/w plates not included in the pagination. The first 8 (front. plus seven) illustrate "The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits". 27 (front. plus 26) illustrate the first part of the book, or Poems from "Rhyme and Reason" --that is, per Wikipedia, poems from the 1869 collection <i>Phantasmagoria and Other Poems</i>, also issued as <i>Rhyme? and Reason?</i>. Two plates each illustrate the second and third parts of the collection, or poems from the two Alice books, and nine illustrate the last part, poems from <i>Sylvie and Bruno</i>. See a digital copy at HathiTrust (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6737b38n?urlappend=%3Bseq=15">Illustrations, 1903 list</a>).


The two plates in part three, or poems from Through the Looking-Glass, are new illustrations; distinct from Newell's 40 illustrations of Looking-Glass (1902).

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1903 The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses Harper & Brothers Collection
1906 The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses Harper & Brothers Collection