Rhyme? and Reason?

Overview:

  • Title: Rhyme? and Reason?
  • Author: Lewis Carroll
  • Year: 1883
  • Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
  • Price: 7/-
  • Pages: xii+214
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
  • Notes:
    • 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