THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK

London: Macmillan & Co, 1876. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. Frontispiece, 83pp., (1)pp. ad. Illustrated by Henry Holiday with nine full page wood engravings. Bound in pictorial buff cloth also designed by Holiday, binding signed with his initials; all edges gilt, black endpapers; wear at spine ends, light toning to spine. First printing with "Baker" not "Butcher" on page 83. A very good or better copy with the bookplate of famed collector Beverly Chew.