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320<br />

blocked in black on front and back covers.<br />

A.e.g.<br />

Advert., [2] p. at back.<br />

326. Copy 2.<br />

Dark red smooth cloth, blocked as above, but<br />

in gold. A.e.g.<br />

Advert. as above.<br />

Inscribed in purple ink on halftitle: Edward<br />

Gough a token of kind regard from the Author.<br />

Mar. 31. 1876.<br />

327. Copy 3.<br />

Same as Copy 2.<br />

Inscribed in purple ink on halftitle: Sophia<br />

Christian Taylor from the Author. June 23.<br />

1876.<br />

328. Copy 4.<br />

Very dark greenish blue smooth cloth; otherwise<br />

as Copies 2 and 3.<br />

Inscribed in purple ink on halftitle: Kathleen<br />

O’Reilly from the Author Mar. 29. 1876.<br />

329. Copy 5.<br />

Same as Copy 4.<br />

Inscribed in purple ink on halftitle: Mrs. Percy<br />

Keane from the Author as a memento of Oct.<br />

24. 1885.<br />

330. Copy 6.<br />

Same as Copies 4 and 5.<br />

Inscribed in purple ink on halftitle: H. Giraud,<br />

Esq. M.D. with kind regards from the Author.<br />

Ap. 3. 1876.<br />

Tipped in on back of frontispiece: An Easter<br />

Greeting to Every Child Who Loves “Alice.” [Oxford],<br />

1876. Handbook, No. 1. See No. 266.<br />

331. Copy 7.<br />

Vellum; otherwise as Copies 2–6.<br />

Inscribed in black ink on halftitle: Presented<br />

to Henry Holiday, most patient of Artists, by<br />

Charles L. Dodgson, most exacting, but not<br />

most ungrateful of Authors. Mar. 29. 1876. Inscription<br />

below this in Holiday’s hand: Henry<br />

Holiday June 12. 1923 With cordial greetngs<br />

[sic ] to the Snarks & Boojums of the Snark<br />

Society.<br />

C. L. Dodgson<br />

332. Copy 8.<br />

White parchment paper, textured and with a<br />

soft leathery finish; otherwise as Copies 2–7.<br />

Inscribed in purple ink on halftitle: Margaret<br />

Evelyn Hardy from the Author. Ap. 24. 1876.<br />

333. Copy 9.<br />

Title page reset, with “Eighteenth Thousand”<br />

added. Printer’s imprint on verso of title leaf<br />

and colophon has an additional line of address.<br />

Dark red smooth cloth, with a triple rule border<br />

and a circular cut of the Bellman on front<br />

cover, a triple rule border and a circular cut of<br />

the Beaver on back cover, all blocked in gold,<br />

spine blocked in gold. A.e.g.<br />

Advert. as in Copies 1–8, except that Alice has<br />

gone from its forty-ninth thousand to its fiftysecond<br />

thousand, the Looking-Glass from its<br />

thirty-eighth thousand to its fortieth thousand.<br />

Inscribed in purple ink on halftitle: Margaret<br />

Henrietta Dymes, from the Author. Sep.<br />

17/78.<br />

334. ———. By Lewis Carroll. . . . With Nine Illustrations<br />

by Henry Holiday. Boston: James<br />

R. Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor &<br />

Fields, and Fields, Osgood & Co., 1876.<br />

xi p., 1 leaf, 83 p. Front., illus. 13.5 cm.<br />

Light grayish yellowish brown boards, illustrated<br />

in black on front and back covers as the<br />

original English edition.<br />

335. Copy 2.<br />

T.p. dated 1877.<br />

nos. 325–336<br />

336. The Hunting of the Snark: Being a Poem in<br />

Eight Fits Written by Lewis Carroll & Decorated<br />

by Cobbledick for the Peter Pauper Press.<br />

[Mount Vernon, New York: Walpole Printing<br />

Office], [1939?]<br />

75 p., 1 leaf. Illus. 20.5 cm.<br />

T.p. printed in black and red. An illustration in<br />

gray and one other color at top of t.p. and each<br />

page of text; colophon printed in orange.<br />

One of 1450 copies.

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