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Rhyme? And Reason? - A. B. (Arthur Burdett) Frost
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Title: Rhyme? And Reason?
Author: Lewis Carroll
Illustrator: Arthur B. Frost
Release Date: August 30, 2010 [EBook #33582]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RHYME? AND REASON? ***
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RHYME?
AND REASON?
UPON A BATTLEMENT.
[See p. 30.
RHYME?
AND REASON?
BY
LEWIS CARROLL
WITH SIXTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
ARTHUR B. FROST
AND NINE
BY
HENRY HOLIDAY
I have had nor rhyme nor reason
PRICE SEVEN SHILLINGS
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1883
[All Rights Reserved]
London:
R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor
BREAD STREET HILL, E.C.
Inscribed to a dear Child:
in memory of golden summer hours
and whispers of a summer sea.
[Of the following poems, Echoes, A Game of Fives, the last three of the Four Riddles, and Fame’s Penny-Trumpet, are here published for the first time. The others have all appeared before, as have also the illustrations to The Hunting of the Snark.]
CONTENTS.
PHANTASMAGORIA.
CANTO I.
The Trystyng.
IN CAVERNS BY THE WATER-SIDE
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