![[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (1832-1898)] 'Lewis Carroll'. The Hunting of the Snark an Agony in Eight Fits. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. 8° in 4s (180 x 115mm). Half-title and one-page publisher's advertisement on [M]2v. Woodcut frontispiece and 8 full-page illustrations by Swain after Henry Holiday, full-page woodcut 'Ocean Chart'. (Scattered spotting and light browning.) Later pictorial crimson morocco gilt by Bayntun (Rivière), the upper cover with the Bellman depicted in coloured morocco onlays, both covers with borders of 5 gilt fillets, circular cornerpieces, outer frame of a single gilt fillet, elaborately roll-tooled gilt turn-ins, the spine gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, titled in 2 and dated at the foot, gilt edges, the original pictorial cloth covers and spine laid down and bound in at the end (the laid down cloth with a few pinholes, trimmed at the edges). FIRST EDITION. Williams, Madan and Green (1979) 115.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2000/CKS/2000_CKS_06348_0645_000(013043).jpg?w=1)
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[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (1832-1898)] 'Lewis Carroll'. The Hunting of the Snark an Agony in Eight Fits. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. 8° in 4s (180 x 115mm). Half-title and one-page publisher's advertisement on [M]2v. Woodcut frontispiece and 8 full-page illustrations by Swain after Henry Holiday, full-page woodcut 'Ocean Chart'. (Scattered spotting and light browning.) Later pictorial crimson morocco gilt by Bayntun (Rivière), the upper cover with the Bellman depicted in coloured morocco onlays, both covers with borders of 5 gilt fillets, circular cornerpieces, outer frame of a single gilt fillet, elaborately roll-tooled gilt turn-ins, the spine gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, titled in 2 and dated at the foot, gilt edges, the original pictorial cloth covers and spine laid down and bound in at the end (the laid down cloth with a few pinholes, trimmed at the edges). FIRST EDITION. Williams, Madan and Green (1979) 115.
[C. L. DODGSON] 'Lewis Carroll'. Sylvie and Bruno. London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. 8° (179 x 115mm). Half-title, 4pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at the end. Woodcut frontispiece and illustrations, 9 full-page, after Harry Furniss, save that on p.77 after Alice Havers. Red calf gilt by Bayntun (Rivière), gilt double-fillet border on covers, roll-tooled gilt turn-ins, the spine gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, contrasting gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, the other decorated in gilt, gilt edges (spine a little faded). FIRST EDITION. Williams, Madan and Green (1979) 217.
[C. L. DODGSON] 'Lewis Carroll'. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. 8° (179 x 115mm). Half-title, 5pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at the end. Woodcut frontispiece and illustrations, 8 full-page, after Harry Furniss, save that on p.409 after Alice Havers. Red calf gilt by Bayntun (Rivière), gilt double-fillet border on covers, roll-tooled gilt turn-ins, the spine gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, contrasting gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, the other decorated in gilt, gilt edges (spine a little faded). FIRST EDITION. Williams, Madan and Green (3)
[C. L. DODGSON] 'Lewis Carroll'. Sylvie and Bruno. London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. 8° (179 x 115mm). Half-title, 4pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at the end. Woodcut frontispiece and illustrations, 9 full-page, after Harry Furniss, save that on p.77 after Alice Havers. Red calf gilt by Bayntun (Rivière), gilt double-fillet border on covers, roll-tooled gilt turn-ins, the spine gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, contrasting gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, the other decorated in gilt, gilt edges (spine a little faded). FIRST EDITION. Williams, Madan and Green (1979) 217.
[C. L. DODGSON] 'Lewis Carroll'. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. 8° (179 x 115mm). Half-title, 5pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at the end. Woodcut frontispiece and illustrations, 8 full-page, after Harry Furniss, save that on p.409 after Alice Havers. Red calf gilt by Bayntun (Rivière), gilt double-fillet border on covers, roll-tooled gilt turn-ins, the spine gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, contrasting gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, the other decorated in gilt, gilt edges (spine a little faded). FIRST EDITION. Williams, Madan and Green (3)
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