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· from www.academia.edu/9964379/Schnarkverschlimmbesserung [1910]: Illustration by Henry Holiday (illustrator) and Joseph Swain (wood cutter) to the chapter The Banker's Fate in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark ("corrected" by Macmillan in 1910) [1876]: Detail from an illustration by Henry and Swain to the chapter The Banker's Fate in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1st edition, 1876) [1856]: Detail (mirror view) from The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston. “Improvement” in German is “Verbesserung”. If things get worse, a “Verschlimmerung” has happened. Jokingly (Germans sometimes can do that) we call “Verschlimmbesserung” what has been made worse after someone tried to improve it. That is what the publisher Macmillan did about 100 years ago. They removed a white spot from the illustration by Henry Holiday (illustrator) and Joseph Swain (wood cutter) to the chapter The Banker's Fate in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). I found this Verschlimmbesserung in a smaller low-quality Snark edition published by Macmillan in 1910. Perhaps the publisher thought that the white spot was Joseph Swain's mistake. But would Henry Holiday and C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) have tolerated such a mistake? As these perfectionists wouldn't have accepted any bad craftsmanship, the white spot must have had a purpose:

See also: www.academia.edu/9964379/Schnarkverschlimmbesserung In a 1910 edition of The Hunting of the Snark , an alledged error, which is not an error, had been removed. However, the removed white spot had a reason, as you see in the inset. The inset shows a segment from a 1876 edition with the white spot and a segment from The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount with a white spot (depicting a reflection from a glass). [left]: Segment from an Illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). [right, mirror view]: The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston.

In a 1910 edition of The Hunting of the Snark , an alledged error, which is not an error, had been removed. However, the removed white spot had a reason, as you see in the inset. The inset shows a segment from a 1876 edition with the white spot and a segment from The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount with a white spot (depicting a reflection from a glass).

[left]: Segment from an Illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). [right, mirror view]: Segment from The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston. Later Macmillan damaged the puzzle: They removed the white spot. In a 1910 edition of The Hunting of the Snark , the white spot had disappeared. However, it had a reason, as you see in the inset. The inset shows a segment from a 1876 edition with the white spot and a segment from The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount with a white spot (reflection from a glass).

[left]: Segment from an Illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). [right, mirror view]: The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston. See also: www.academia.edu/9889413/The_Bankers_Face

[left]: Segment from an Illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). [right, mirror view]: The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston. · · 513 · · He was black in the face, and they scarcely could trace · · 514· · · · The least likeness to what he had been: · · 515· · While so great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white- · · 516· · · · A wonderful thing to be seen! · · 517· · To the horror of all who were present that day. · · 518· · · · He uprose in full evening dress, · · 519· · And with senseless grimaces endeavoured to say · · 520· · · · What his tongue could no longer express. · · 521· · Down he sank in a chair--ran his hands through his hair-- · · 522· · · · And chanted in mimsiest tones · · 523· · Words whose utter inanity proved his insanity, · · 524· · · · While he rattled a couple of bones. Mahendra Singh guided me to this painting. I found a painting depicting a bone player in his blog which Mahendra used to tell us something about the bone ratteling Banker. Mahendra is a professional illustrator who not only is one of the few curageous and curious Snark hunters, but also (like Holiday) a very gifted architect of Snark conundrums in his own right. Just look at his own illustrations to his Snark edition (2010). ( justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.com/2012/01/fit-7-pg-752-d... ) Mount painted The Bone Player after receiving a commission from the printers Goupil and Company for two pictures of African-American musicians to be lithographed (e.g. by Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse ) for the European market. These became the last in a series of five life-size likenesses of musicians that Mount executed between 1849 and 1856. ( www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-bone-player-33207 ) Could Henry Holiday have seen that lithograph? In London, Goupil & Cie was established by Ernest Gambart. 17 Southampton Street. Moved to 25 Bedford Street, Strand in 1875 when Goupil & Cie took over Holloway & Sons and their salerooms. Goupil's manager in London was at this time Charles Obach. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goupil_&_Cie )

[left]: Segment from an Illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). [right, mirror view]: The Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount, now displayed in MFA, Boston. · · 513 · · He was black in the face, and they scarcely could trace · · 514· · · · The least likeness to what he had been: · · 515· · While so great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white- · · 516· · · · A wonderful thing to be seen! · · 517· · To the horror of all who were present that day. · · 518· · · · He uprose in full evening dress, · · 519· · And with senseless grimaces endeavoured to say · · 520· · · · What his tongue could no longer express. · · 521· · Down he sank in a chair--ran his hands through his hair-- · · 522· · · · And chanted in mimsiest tones · · 523· · Words whose utter inanity proved his insanity, · · 524· · · · While he rattled a couple of bones. Mahendra Singh guided me to Mount's painting. I found a painting depicting a bone player in his blog which Mahendra used to tell us something about the bone ratteling Banker. Mahendra is a professional illustrator who not only is one of the few curageous and curious Snark hunters, but also (like Holiday) a very gifted architect of Snark conundrums in his own right. Just look at his own illustrations to his Snark edition (2010). ( justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.com/2012/01/fit-7-pg-752-d... ) Mount painted The Bone Player after receiving a commission from the printers Goupil and Company for two pictures of African-American musicians to be lithographed (e.g. by Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse ) for the European market. These became the last in a series of five life-size likenesses of musicians that Mount executed between 1849 and 1856. ( www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-bone-player-33207 ) Could Henry Holiday have seen that lithograph? In London, Goupil & Cie was established by Ernest Gambart. 17 Southampton Street. Moved to 25 Bedford Street, Strand in 1875 when Goupil & Cie took over Holloway & Sons and their salerooms. Goupil's manager in London was at this time Charles Obach. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goupil_&_Cie )