Original Publication
Phantasmagoria by Lewis Carroll was first published by Macmillan and Co., London, in 1869. Macmillan was also the publisher of the Alice books by Carroll. The first edition, had a blue cardboard cover with gold embossed cover illustration and edges and spine, bound by Burn & Co., Kirby Street, E.C.
The poem appeared in the collection with several other poems:
- Echoes
- A Sea Dirge
- Ye Carpette Knyghte
- Hiawatha's Photographing
- Melancholetta
- A Valentine
- The Three Voices
- Tema Con Variazioni
- A Game of Fives
- Poeta Fit, non Nascitur
- Size and Tears
- Atalanta in Camden-Town
- The Lang Coortin'
- Four Riddles
- Fame's Penny Trumpet
Cover illustrations on the original book (Morgan Library copy) represent the Crab Nebula in Tauras and Donah’s Comet, “Two distinguished members of the Celestial Phantasmagoria.”
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