CARROLL, Lewis. Rhyme? and Reason? With sixty-five illustrations by Arthur B. Frost and nine by Henry Holiday. London: Macmillan and Co., 1883.


First edition. Small 8vo. Original green cloth, front board with gilt rules and central pictorial roundel, all edges gilt, black coated endpapers. Tissue guard present.


A well restored copy with a tight binding a new end papers. The border of sound and the page is clean. Extremities rubbed, the head and tail of the spine worn. Corners lightly bumped, and a few small marks to the front board. Gilt edges dulled, with a small chip to the head of the fore-edge of the textblock. Title-page toned and spotted. Otherwise a sound copy.


Carroll's collected comic verse, gathering Phantasmagoria and The Hunting of the Snark with additional poems. The Frost illustrations were drawn for this collection.