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Description
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK AND OTHER POEMS
Book Details + Condition: Harper & Brothers (New York). First Edition, 1903. 248 pages. Beautifully illustrated with 31 full-page plates by the celebrated Peter Newell. Some pages remain uncut towards the front. Large border decorations in green on every text page by Robert Murray Wright. Bound in publisher's full white parchment velum, the spine and upper covers titled in gilt, with gilt decoration on lower left corner of cover. The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems includes: Poems From "Rhymes and Reason"; Poems From "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"; Poems From "Through Looking Glass" and Poems From "Sylvie and Bruno". A firm and clean copy of a beautiful Lewis Carroll work, with light wear and discoloration to velum boards; darkening to spine; small inscription on front free endpaper; otherwise clean and free of interior markings.
