Caroll The Hunting of the Snark 1876

LEWIS CAROLL (DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge, pseud. for Lewis Carroll).The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony, in Eight Fits.
London, Macmillan and Co., 1876.
8vo, xi, (2), 83, (3) pp. Frontispiece and 8 full-page black and white wood-engraved illustrations after Henry Holiday and an "ocean chart" (actually blank) at p. 17.
Original pictorial cloth, gilt edges, covers decoratively stamped in black with illustrations by Holiday.

First edition of this great nonsense poem.

Binding partly worn and faded, damages to spine, partly split edges, sligthly loose in binding, split inner edges. . Signature and notes on half title, small stain to margin on 6 pages and 2 plates-