INSCRIBED TO RUSKIN'S COUSIN
Rhyme? and Reason?
Macmillan, 1887.
Second edition (fourth thousand). Original red cloth lettered in gilt with triple gilt ruled borders and gilt vignettes to covers, all edges gilt. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the half title, "Mrs A Severn from the Author [flourish] Jan. 1888". Illustrated throughout in line by Arthur Frost and Henry Holiday. A very good copy with some tanning to the spine. Internally fresh with hinges starting.
A collection of nonsense rhymes mainly reprinted from Phantasmagoria, but including all of The Hunting of the Snark.
Joan Stevens (neé Agnew) was John Ruskin's cousin, and spent much her adult life as Ruskin's companion, then nurse and eventually heir. Dodgson and Ruskin came to know one another through the Christ Church connection and Dodgson took at least one fine photograph of Ruskin and sent him a presentation copy of Sylvie & Bruno.
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