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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). The Hunting of the Snark. London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor for Macmillan and Co., 1876. 4° (184 x 124mm). 9 illustrations after Henry Holiday. Original red cloth, gilt-stamped, spine gilt lettered, gilt edges, Burn & Co. binder's ticket at rear inside cover (gilt and spine ends lightly rubbed), red quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Provenance: Sarah Caroline 'Sally' Sinclair (1868-1956, presentation inscription) -- Mrs T.A. Parker (sale, Sotheby's London, 19 April 1971, lot 313) -- sale, Swann Galleries, 29 April 1992, lot 67 -- Robert E. Hill (bookplate in chemise).
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 100 COPIES BOUND IN RED CLOTH FOR PRESENTATION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR in purple ink to one of his child-friends: 'Sally Sinclair from the Author. March 1879'. 'Sally' Sinclair inspired an acrostic poem titled 'Love Among the Roses' (manuscript, Rosenbach, dated 3 January 1878), which became one of two forgeries produced by Buxton Forman's son after Carroll's death. Carroll sent Sally's mother Maria a letter dated 24 April 1878 with directions to A.B. Frost's studio in Haverstock Hill suggesting that Frost could draw Sally as Cupid and that Carroll could give her a photograph of the drawing. In his Diaries (1953) Carroll describes Sally as 'quite beautiful by daylight as gaslight' (p.369); and in a letter to Frost (7 May 1878) gave him instructions for this Cupid drawing and 'a study from life (but not Cupid) that I may keep as a specimen of your power in drawing a beautiful figure ... a girl of about 12 is my ideal of beauty of form' (cf. Letters p.308). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 115.
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 100 COPIES BOUND IN RED CLOTH FOR PRESENTATION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR in purple ink to one of his child-friends: 'Sally Sinclair from the Author. March 1879'. 'Sally' Sinclair inspired an acrostic poem titled 'Love Among the Roses' (manuscript, Rosenbach, dated 3 January 1878), which became one of two forgeries produced by Buxton Forman's son after Carroll's death. Carroll sent Sally's mother Maria a letter dated 24 April 1878 with directions to A.B. Frost's studio in Haverstock Hill suggesting that Frost could draw Sally as Cupid and that Carroll could give her a photograph of the drawing. In his Diaries (1953) Carroll describes Sally as 'quite beautiful by daylight as gaslight' (p.369); and in a letter to Frost (7 May 1878) gave him instructions for this Cupid drawing and 'a study from life (but not Cupid) that I may keep as a specimen of your power in drawing a beautiful figure ... a girl of about 12 is my ideal of beauty of form' (cf. Letters p.308). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 115.
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