CARROLL, Lewis (author). Harold JONES (illustrator). The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony, in Eight Fits. [Andoversford, Gloucestershire]: The Whittington Press. 1975.
Small folio. Original black cloth, panelled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, other untrimmed, marbled endpapers, preserved in the original black card slipcase; pp. vi + [iv] + 43 + [v], printed on mould-made paper; with title-page printed in black and gilt and 15 fine black-and-white plates by Jones, together with other decorations in monochrome; a near fine copy with the bookplate of Giles Alexander Esme Gordon to inner upper cover, in a near fine slipcase with a minor bruise to one corner.
First edition illustrated thus; one of only 750 numbered copies, set in Caslon type, signed by Harold Jones, of which 30 were produced as "Specials" and bound in full leather.
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