One of the nine illustrations by Henry James Holiday

One of the nine illustrations by Henry James Holiday (1839-1927) for the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll (London, 1876). On the top deck are the Bellman, the Baker and the Barrister. Below are the Billiard marker, the Banker, the Bonnet maker, and the Broker. Lewis Carroll was the pen name of the English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898)

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