The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses

Overview:

  • Title: The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses
  • Author: Lewis Carroll
  • Year: 1903
  • Publisher: Harper & Brothers
  • Price: $3.00
  • Pages: xiii+248+[40]
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed.
    • Price from advertisement by the publisher, The Sun (Baltimore) 1903-10-27 p9.
    • HDL (catalog record, one more) provides full view of four copies with plain cloth covers (original?). The latter alone, from Library of Congress, is digitized in color: -- copyright page shows   LC copyright deposit stamp, as received 1903-10-16   "Published October, 1903." -- Contents, p.iii-v -- "Illustrations", vii-xiii, lists 40 (col. frontispiece plus 39 b/w plates not included in the pagination), closes "Decorations by Robert Murray Wright" There is a border decoration on every printed page except the title leaf.
    • Contents listed below (2019-10-23) are the two longest poems in the collection, both from the first of its four parts. See the collection record.