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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (1832-1898). The Hunting of the Snark. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. 8vo. Half-title, 9 plates by Henry Holiday; 1p. publisher’s advertisement at end. (Spotting to half-title). Original buff cloth stamped in black, edges gilt (extremities sunned, front joint cracked at frontispiece). Provenance: contemporary booksellers’ embossed stamp on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Dodgson’s poem, which “describes with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature” (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 115).