Book Illustrations by Henry Holiday, 1839-1927 (original) (raw)

The Hunting of the Snark, An Agony in Eight Fits (1876)

• Introduction
• The Bellman in the ship’s rigging – Front cover design
• The Landing Frontispiece.
• The Crew on Board Page 5.
• The Butcher and the Beaver Page 10
• The Baker’s Tale Page 31.
• The Hunting Page 41.
• The Beaver’s Lesson Page 52.
• The Barrister’s Dream Page 62.
• The Banker’s Fate Page 74.
• The Vanishing Page 82.
• The Tolling Buoy – back cover design.

Illustrated British Ballads, Old and New,. 1881.

• But the Queen held her brows and gazed And said, ‘It is the glare of torches there’ (Rossetti’s “Staff and Scrip”)
• “Riding Together” (Morris’s poem)
• Sir Guido (from poem by James Bolivar Manson)
• “The Pilgrim said, ‘Peace be with you, Lady,’ and bent his knee (Rossetti’s “Staff and Scrip”)
• Uncover ye his face,’ she said. ‘O changed in the little space!” (Rossetti’s “Staff and Scrip”)

Miscellaneous

• The Annunciation

Bibliography

Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark, An Agony in Eight Fits. Illustrated by Henry Holiday with Engravings by Joseph Swain. London: 1876, Macmillan,

Henry Holiday 1839–1927. London: William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, 1989, cat. 42, 11.

Holiday, Henry. Reminiscences of My Life. London: Heinemann, 1914.

Illustrated British Ballads, Old and New. Ed. by George Barnett Smith. 2 vols. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1881.

Reid, Forrest. Illustrators of the Sixties. London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd., 1928.

Suriano, Gregory R. The Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 200. 256-57.

Tanis, James and John Dooley Eds. Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, A Centennial Edition. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, 1981, 244-46.

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