Lewis Carroll — Rhyme? and Reason?

London, Macmillan and Co. 1883. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Lewis Carroll's charming illustrated anthology of poems. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixty-five vignettes and full page illustrations by Arthur B. Frost, and nine vignette and full page illustrations by Henry Holiday.Collated, complete.One page of publisher's advertisements to the rear.A copiously illustrated collection of poems and whimsical narratives which showcase the imagination of beloved children's author Lewis Carroll. Of the seventeen included works, "Echoes", "A Game of Fives", the last three of the "Four Riddles", and "Fame's Penny-Trumpet", are published for the first time. Also including Carroll's longest poem 'Phantasmagoria' and the highly popular 'The Hunting of the Snark&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with mild rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Darkening to the spine. Hinges are strained. Internally, generally firmly bound, with only front free endpaper detached but present. Pages are bright and clean, with the odd handling mark to the endpapers only. Good . Ill.: Arthur B. Frost; Henry Holiday. Good .