"This book, one of the most popular collections of humor of the 19th century, went into an unknown number of reprintings from the original plates" (BAL). This first printing contains the first reprinting (unsigned and unauthorized) of any of Lewis Carroll''s writings, "Novelty and Romancement" (pp. 188-194), which had first appeared in the monthly magazine The Train in March of 1856, with only one illustration. Here there are three illustrations. BAL 7094. Parrish, Supplement, p. 69. William, Madan and Green 14 note. HBS 15037.