The hunting of the Snark. an agony, in eight fits.
Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
Category
Books
Date
1876
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 3219687
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, [3], 83, [3]p. ill. ; 19 cm. Sixteenth thousand. Blind bookseller's stamp: "W. H. Smith & Son". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate with motto "Fortiter aut suaviter", lettered "Courtauld-Tomson, Dorneywood". Signed: H. J. F. Badeley, 1945. [i.e. Courtauld Courtauld-Thomson, 1st Baron Courtauld-Thomson (1865–1954)]. Also inscribed "Courtauld Thomson, Dorneywood". Stamped with National Trust ownership mark. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full brown illustrated cloth. Black endpapers, gilt edges.
Makers and roles
Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), author Henry James Holiday (London 1839 - London 1927), illustrator