Editing The Hunting of the Snark (section)

=== Illustrations ===
To illustrate the poem Carroll chose [[Henry Holiday]], whom he had met in 1869<ref name="Henry Holiday excerpts"/> or 1870.{{sfn|Clark|1979|pp=196–7}} At the time Carroll approached him to ask if he could create three illustrations for the poem, Carroll had completed three "[[Fitt (poetry)|fits]]", as he called the parts of his poem{{snd}}''fit'' can mean either [[canto]] or convulsion{{sfn|Gardner|2006|p=11}}{{snd}}"The Landing", "The Hunting", and "The Vanishing".{{sfn|Clark|1979|pp=196–7}} He intended to title it ''The Boojum'' and include it in his fantasy novel ''[[Sylvie and Bruno]]'', which was unfinished at the time.{{sfn|Clark|1979|pp=196–7}} However, in late October 1875, Carroll thought about having it published during [[Christmas]]; this proved impossible, as the wood engraving for the illustrations needed three months to be complete.{{sfn|Gardner|2006|page=xxx}} By the time Holiday had completed the sketches and sent them to Carroll, Carroll had already created a new fit requiring an illustration. They worked this way until Holiday had created nine illustrations as well as the front cover and the back cover of the book.<ref name="Henry Holiday excerpts">{{cite book |last=Holiday |first=Henry |chapter=Excerpts from Henry Holiday's ''Reminiscences of my Life'' |editor-last=Gardner |editor-first=Martin |year=2006 |title=The Annotated Hunting of the Snark: The definitive edition |place=New York, NY |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. |pages=113–115 |isbn=978-0-393-06242-7}}</ref> Thus, among the ten illustrations shown below, one illustration is not by Holiday.<ref>The front page of ''The Hunting of the Snark'' (1876) states: "with nine illustrations by Henry Holiday". The assumption is that the "Ocean Chart" (aka "The Bellman's Map") has been arranged by Carroll. Source: {{cite journal |first=Doug |last=Howick |date=Winter 2011 |title=A perfect and absolute mystery |journal=Knight Letter |issue=87 |page=5 |issn=0193-886X |url=https://archive.org/details/knightletterno8717lewi/page/4/mode/2up}}</ref> The "Ocean Chart" is typographic art whereas [[Electrotyping|electrotypes]] made from [[Joseph Swain (engraver)|Joseph Swain]]'s woodblock engravings were used to print Holiday's illustrations.

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File:Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 1.jpg|The Bellman landing the Banker by entwining a finger in the Banker's hair
File:Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 2.jpg
File:Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 3.jpg|The Butcher (left) and the Beaver (right) looking sideways
File:Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 4.jpg|The ocean chart (which is blank)
File:Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 5.jpg|The Baker whose belongings were left behind on the beach
File:Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 6.jpg
File:Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 7.jpg|The Butcher doing maths
File:Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 8.jpg|The Barrister's dream of the trial of the pig, with the Snark shown draped in a cloth in the foreground acting as defence barrister; the Bellman's bell is ringing in his ear in the lower left
File:Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 9.jpg|The Bellman, Banker, and Butcher holding the Beaver
File:Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 10.jpg
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There is no depiction of the Snark, nor of Boots. However, based on a draft<ref>{{cite web |title=Concept draft |url=http://www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/32765945}} shows a redrawn image from a concept draft by C.&nbsp;L. Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll). The drawing was part of a lot consisting of an 1876 edition of the "Hunting of the Snark" and a letter (dated 1876-01-04) by Dodgson to Henry Holiday. The lot was auctioned by Doyle New York (Rare Books, Autographs & Photographs – Sale 13BP04 – Lot 553) offered in November&nbsp;2013.</ref> by Carroll, the snark was allowed to show up in an illustration by Holiday, where it appeared in a dream of the Barrister.

The illustration to the chapter ''The Banker's Fate'' might contain pictorial allusions to the etching ''The Image Breakers'' by [[Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder]],<ref name="MarysaDemoor">{{cite book |first=Marysa |last=Demoor |author-link=Marysa Demoor |year=2022 |title=A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815-1918: Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglement |chapter=Surrealist Entanglements (chapter 7) |pages=184 to 186, 194, 199 (footnote 20) |publisher=Palgrave MacMillan / Springer nature |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-87926-6 |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-87926-6 |isbn=978-3-030-87926-6}}</ref> to [[William Sidney Mount]]'s painting ''The Bone Player'' and to a photograph by [[Duchenne de Boulogne|Benjamin Duchenne]] used for a drawing in [[Charles Darwin|Charles Darwin's]] 1872 book ''[[The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals]]''.<ref name="KnightLetter99">{{cite journal |last=Kluge |first=Goetz |title=Nose is a Nose is a Nose |url=https://archive.org/details/knightletterno9929lewi/page/n33/mode/2up |journal=Knight Letter |date=December 2017 |number=99 |page=30~31 |issn=0193-886X}} {{cite web |url=https://snrk.de/knight-letter-links/kl-fall2017 |title=Author's page}}</ref>