LEWIS CARROLL (CHARLES L. DODGSON)

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LEWIS CARROLL (CHARLES L. DODGSON)

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www.peterharrington.co.uk FOREWORD

In 1862 Charles Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. With Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), children’s literature escaped from the grimly moral tone of evangelical tracts to delight in magical worlds populated by talking rabbits and stubborn lobsters. A key work in modern fantasy literature, it is the prototype of the portal quest, in which readers are invited to follow the protagonist into an alternate world of the fantastic. The Alice books are one of the best-known works in world literature. They have been translated into over one hundred languages, and are referenced and cited in academic works and popular culture to this day. Alice has been presented in numerous film and television versions over the years and inspired many artists and illustrators. There are no dependably accurate world figures for sales of the two Alice books, but these two books have never been out of print and they must be counted among the best sellers of all time. When the original manuscript presented by Dodgson to Alice Liddell was auctioned at Sotheby’s London, 3 August 1928, it was bought by the American book dealer Rosenbach in a blaze of publicity and later sold to the collector Eldridge R. Johnson. The manuscript was bought in 1948 for $50,000 and presented to the British Museum by American donors appreciative of Britain’s war efforts. The manuscript currently resides in the British Library, where it is considered one of the national library’s greatest treasures. The Alice books were appearing in the collecting market even before the author’s death, but it was in May 1893 in Oxford that the first and greatest auction of Carrolliana was held, the sale that dispersed the remnants of the author’s estate, a sale which could be said to mark the beginning of serious Lewis Carroll collecting. Lewis Carroll was collected by some of the leading book collectors of the 20th century, appearing in landmark sales over the century such as the libraries of Jerome Kern (1929), Eldridge Johnson (1948) and Justin Schiller (1998).

2 PART I: ALICE AND HER SEQUELS

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

The publication of the first Alice book set a pattern for many of Dodgson’s succeeding publications. The book was originally printed in Oxford at the Clarendon Press in June 1865. On 19 July 1865, Dodgson heard that the book’s illustrator John Tenniel was dissatisfied with the quality of the printing, so decided to suppress the whole edition of 2,000 copies. He recalled the few pre-publication copies he had sent out to his friends and donated them to hospitals, where most perished. Only 23 of those original “1865 Alices” are now extant, mostly in institutional holdings, thus creating one of the most famous black tulips of book collecting. The book was entirely reset by Richard Clay for the authorized Macmillan edition which, although dated 1866, was in fact ready by November 1865, in time for the Christmas market. The unused Oxford sheets were sold to Appleton’s for use in their New York edition, published the following summer. The Macmillan edition was published in an edition of 4,000 copies. All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk

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The first published edition 1 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. London: (Richard Clay for) Macmillan and Co., 1866

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, triple gilt rules second (first published) edition, with the in- to covers, triple ruled gilt, gilt roundels with “Alice” motifs to verted “S” in the last line of the Contents page. covers, dark green coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom red linen chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Printing and the Mind of Man 354 (note); Williams–Madan–Green– Crutch 46. Frontispiece and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel. Bookplate of Mary Hemenway Field (1903–1957) and bookseller’s ticket £57,500 [108856] to front pastedown, binder’s ticket to rear pastedown. Gift inscription dated 11 August 1866 to verso of front free endpa- per. Spine rolled, corner of p. i creased, front inner hinge with short split near head and just starting at foot, a few faint marks to contents. An exceptional copy in original condition.

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The Appleton Alice, retaining the original printed sheets 2 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York: (Clarendon Press, Oxford, for) D. Appleton and Co., 1866

Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, triple gilt but with new tipped-in title pages also printed at the rules to covers, gilt roundels with “Alice” motifs to covers, Clarendon Press, Oxford. Dodgson authorized the sale dark green endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom to America on 10 April 1866 and was invoiced for the red morocco pull-off case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for E. P. printing of the American title pages on 26 May. Dutton, intricately decorated gilt, inlaid with green morocco roundels featuring Alice characters, onlaid with gemstones This copy is handsomely presented in a magnificently for eyes. Frontispiece with tissue-guard and 41 illustrations by decorated and bejewelled morocco case made in the John Tenniel. Spine expertly rebacked and laid down, an oc- 1920s by the London binders Sangorski & Sutcliffe for casional mark or spot to contents. An excellent, bright copy. E. P. Dutton of New York. For a similar case on a book first edition, second issue: the first practi- from Jerome Kern’s collection, see item 35 below. cably obtainable issue of the original sheets, Lewis Carroll at Texas: the Warren Weaver Collection (1985) no. 2; Wil- comprising sheets of the suppressed 1865 printing of liams–Madan–Green–Crutch 44. Alice with the Appleton cancel title page. The issue con- sisted of 1,000 copies, using the first printing sheets £27,500 [108858]

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The first of Dodgson’s seasonal greetings 3 CARROLL, Lewis. To all Child-Readers of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. [Oxford:] Christmas 1871

Vicesimo-quarto (24mo), single bifolium. Unbound, printed Smedley, approving of the little Christmas address I on wove paper. In this copy, the final “d” of “Wonderland” on had sent her in MS.” the title page has failed to print. Fine condition. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 82. first edition of a letter of good wishes for Christ- mas and the New Year. As there is no specific mention £125 [108921] of Through the Looking-Glass, Williams–Madan–Green– Crutch speculate that this little four-page leaflet could have been inserted in copies of the 1872 edition of Al- ice and also in copies of Through the Looking-Glass, pub- lished the same month as this. On 22 November 1871, Dodgson noted in his diary: “Heard from Menella

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Inscribed to Alice’s sister, in the rare white binding specially for presentation 4 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Fifty-fifth thousand. London: Macmillan and Co., 1877

Octavo. Presentation binding of gilt-stamped white boards calf label. Frontispiece with tissue-guard and 41 illustrations in imitation of white morocco, black endpapers, gilt edges. by John Tenniel. Bookplate of Herbert Brenon to front past- Housed in a custom buff linen chemise and slipcase with red edown. Spine marked and slightly indented around the gilt

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I think, be bold enough to give such invitations – but, but, I am close on 60 years old now – and all romantic sentiment has quite died out of my life; so I have quite hardened as to having lady-visitors of any age!” The book demonstrates that Rhoda, now approaching 32 years of age and probably in company with her younger sister Violet, made the suggested visit to Dodgson in his rooms on Saturday, 28 November 1891, receiving this copy as a present on the occasion. A typescript of the letter accompanies the book; the original auto- graph letter was lost in the intervening years between the book’s sale at Sotheby’s in 1930, and its reappear- ance with the bookseller David Magee in 1948. letters “in”, boards lightly finger-marked, some light wear to This style of white binding for presentation was extremities, a little light foxing to outer leaves, split to foot of Dodgson’s preferred choice for his closest friends. front panel, text block sound. An exceptional copy. His preference for a white binding for presentation sixth edition, presentation copy to alice’s dates back to the first edition of Alice’s Adventures in younger sister, in the notably rare presen- Wonderland, when he originally ordered 50 copies for tation binding of gilt-stamped white boards presentation in red cloth and a single copy in white in imitation of white morocco, with Dodgson’s vellum. In March 1876 he requested a lavish array of inscription in blue ink to Rhoda Liddell, sister of the colours, including “20 bindings in white vellum and original “Alice”: “Rhoda Liddell, from the Author. gold”, for The Hunting of the Snark. It would have been Nov. 28, 1891.” Rhoda Caroline Anne Liddell (b. Dec extremely difficult and expensive for a commercial 1859) was the younger sister of Alice Liddell (b. May publisher like Macmillan to produce so many gilt- 1852), and still a little too young to join the party for stamped bindings in real vellum. Instead, they settled the famous boat trip when Alice’s adventures were first on this style of boards covered with a textured white conceived. She was the fourth of the five daughters of cloth (variously described by auctioneers as imitation Henry George Liddell (1811–1898), lexicographer and morocco, vellum, or parchment). dean of Christ Church, Oxford. Like her youngest sis- ter, Violet, she never married. Dodgson liked to have a supply of his books in white bindings ready for presentation as occasion demand- The relationship between Dodgson and the Liddell ed. For a comparable white presentation binding on family has naturally been a matter of fascination to Through the Looking-Glass, see item 19 below; for white his biographers. There was some kind of break in their presentation bindings in a variety of materials on oth- relationship in 1863, when Dodgson avoided the Lid- er titles, see items 24, 25, 46, 47, and 48. dell home for six months before returning for a visit in December, though the cause of this is much disputed. provenance: 1) sold at auction, (together with the The friendship gradually faded away, although this original autograph letter) 14–17 April 1930, Sotheby’s copy demonstrates that it was capable of occasional London, for £64 to: 2) Irish film director Herbert revival. A fortnight before the date of this presenta- Brenon (1880–1958), with his bookplate, then sold by tion, in a letter dated 19 November 1891, Dodgson him to: 3) David Magee Book Shop, San Francisco, of- wrote to Mrs Liddell, enthusing over a recent royal visit fered for sale in August 1948 priced $250 and sold to: to Oxford and inviting her two youngest daughters to 4) Mrs Ethelinda Schaefer Castle (d. 1971), resident in visit him: “I have a store of ancient memories of visits Honolulu, described by her alma mater Bryn Mawr as from your elder daughters, but I do not think that Miss “one of the most accomplished book collectors of the Rhoda and Miss Violet Liddell have ever even been in- 20th century”; thence by descent. side my rooms”. Dodgson suggests that they may be Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 46d. entertained by his “large collection of photos of little £42,500 [108859] friends belonging to that very peculiar class, ‘stage- children’ … If I were 20 years younger, I should not,

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A triple presentation, both Alice books together with An Easter Greeting, all inscribed to his child-friend and photographic subject Mabel Amy Burton 5 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; [together with:] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan and Co., 1877; [and with:] An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves “Alice”. [Oxford: by Parker] Easter 1876

Two works in book form, octavo. Original red cloth, titles to lander box. Adventures: small cloth repair at head of front spine gilt, covers triple-ruled in gilt, roundel with Alice mo- joint, a superb copy. Looking-Glass: an exceptionally bright tifs in gilt to covers, green coated endpapers, all edges gilt. copy. Pamphlet: Trigesimo-secundo (32mo), single bifo- Frontispieces with tissue-guard and 41 and 49 illustrations lium. Unbound as issued, printed on paper watermarked “E. respectively by John Tenniel. Each work individually housed Towgood Fine”. Fine condition. in a custom red linen chemise and red quarter morocco so-

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sixth edition (55th thousand) of adventures; lend it to me.’ Mr Dodgson had then promised to send first edition (40th thousand) of looking- me a copy and had told me that he was the author. I glass; first edition, first issue, of easter longed to possess the book, but hardly believed that greeting. presentation copies to mabel amy such happiness would come my way. As for the author- burton, the books inscribed by the author in his ship – I doubt whether I grasped the meaning of it, for customary purple ink on the half-titles, “Mabel Amy I do not think that the knowledge that I knew Lewis Burton, from the Author. Aug. 22 1877” and “Mabel Carroll, sank into my mind … [later] I knew ‘Alice in Amy Burton from the Author. August 1, ’78”; the Wonderland’ almost by heart and must have boasted pamphlet “for Mabel from Lewis Carroll. Aug. 22. of this to Lewis Carroll, for he challenged me to learn, 1877”. Mabel Amy Burton (b. 1869) was one of the and repeat correctly to him, the Duchess’s wonderful subjects of Dodgson’s photographs. Their first meet- moral (Alice in Wonderland, p. 134), ‘Never imagine ing is recorded by Dodgson in his diary entry for 16 yourself not to be otherwise, etc.’ I accepted the chal- August 1877: “Went on the pier in the evening, and lenge and learned the ‘moral’. But alas! When the test- made another fortunate acquaintance … my new ing time came – I must then have been about 10 years friend is Mabel Amy Burton, of 53 Pentonville Road, old – stage fright took possession of me and I broke Islington. She seems to be about 8 … Mabel herself is down utterly crying ‘I did know it, I did know it’. My entirely charming, and without an atom of shyness: friend took me on his knee and comforted me, but I never became friends with a child so easily or so never again did he ask me to repeat that ‘moral’” (“My quickly.” He later instructed Mabel that “my letters to Remembrances of Lewis Carroll”). you are for you and no one else” (“My Remembrances The Easter Greeting leaflet was primarily intended to be of Lewis Carroll”, unpublished typescript in the fam- put into copies of The Hunting of the Snark, but was also ily’s possession), and it seems that for this reason distributed separately, judging from Dodgson’s letter Mabel refused to allow any of them to be copied and to Craik on 18 May 1876: “Please be prepared to sell published by editors of Dodgson’s correspondence. Easter Greetings separately, if asked for; I have been On 28 August 1877, Carroll noted in his diary: “Heard asked if I will allow them to be sold, and of course I from Mabel’s mother in London (I had written there, have no objection. You will know best what to charge: having failed to find the address here [in Eastbourne]) only remember that I want neither to gain nor lose to the effect that Mabel is home again: so sent off the by it.” promised Alice, a memorial to one of the briefest of For Dodgson’s presentation of A Tangled Tale (1885) to friendships! (I met her only twice)”. Mabel herself the same recipient, see item 51 below. later wrote: “before we left Mr Dodgson had one day asked me whether I had read ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ I Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 46d, 84 & 116. remember my reply perfectly well, ‘No,’ I said ‘but I’m £17,500 [107886] going to when I get home. A friend had promised to

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Inscribed to his sister’s goddaughter 6 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Eighty-Third Thousand. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, triple gilt rules Welford from the Author. July 17, 1895.” It is most likely to covers, gilt roundels with “Alice” motifs to covers, black that this is the same Nellie Welford who was the god- coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom pur- daughter of Dodgson’s sister, Mary Charlotte Colling- ple straight-grain morocco solander box. Frontispiece with wood (1835–1911), by whom she was left £5 in her will. tissue-guard and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel. Minor bub- bling to cloth, spine leaned and slightly faded, 3 illustrations The Carrollian, Issues 2–6, 1998, p. 12. Williams–Madan–Green– of Alice with a little colour neatly applied, an excellent copy. Crutch 46e. seventh edition, presentation copy, in- £7,500 [108861] scribed by the author on the half-title, “Nellie

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Inscribed to a child-friend who had grown up to be a school teacher 7 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; [together with:] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan and Co., 1891 & 1887

2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, spines lettered gilt, who were playing with her – May and Edith Miller and triple gilt rules to covers, roundel with “Alice” motifs to cov- Millicent and Mabel Pidcock” (Lewis Carroll’s Diaries, ed. ers gilt, black coated endpapers. Housed in a red cloth flat- Edward Wakeling, 2003, vol. 7, pp. 354–5). Edith and backed box, velvet-lined, with individual chemises. Frontis- her sister came to be counted among Dodgson’s group pieces with tissue guards and illustrations by John Tenniel. of “child-friends”, and often visited him when he was Spines uniformly faded, hinges of Adventures starting, an excellent set. in visiting Eastbourne. He maintained the friendship into adulthood, and they corresponded until the au- eighth edition (84th thousand) of adventures; thor’s death. third edition (59th thousand) of looking-glass, presentation copies, each inscribed by the In September 1893 Dodgson gave a reading to the small author on the half-title: “Edith Miller, from the Au- class of children which was taught by the Miller sisters, thor. Oct. 3 1893.” Dodgson first met Edith Mary Miller by then in their early twenties. Shortly after, on 3 Octo- (1870–1929) when she was 11 years old. Her family had ber, he noted in his diary that he “walked to Upperton moved to Eastbourne in 1873 after the death of her fa- to take the Millers the books I had promised for the ther, Henry Miller, in 1881. There, she met Dodgson school library at Ocklynge” (ibid. vol. 9, p. 97). These during his fifth summer at the coast on the morning books were most likely delivered at the same time, or of 6 August, as he noted in his diary: “I went along the are perhaps the very copies to which Dodgson refers. beach to the rocks and made friends with an attractive Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 46f & 84b. little girl who gave me her name as ‘Marion Richards’ … My acquaintance with Marion involved four others £12,500 [108877]

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Alice’s adventures in Antarctica 8 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; [together with:] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan and Co., 1899 & 1901

2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spines and perform an operation in Antarctica – the removal of a front covers black, illustrations to front covers in red and cyst from the face of Lieutenant Royds. He discovered black. Frontispieces with tissue-guards and illustrations by two glacial features which were later named after him, John Tenniel. “Presentation Copy” blindstamps to title pag- the Koettlitz Glacier and the Koettlitz Neve. Prior to es. Spines rolled, covers a little marked, slight wear to spine this, he had accompanied other expeditions to Abys- ends and tips, some light spots and marks to covers, blind stamps on titles, some light foxing to contents, front hinge of sinia, Somaliland and Brazil, and, following his ear- Alice split but holding, hinges of Through the Looking-Glass split lier role in the 1894 Jackson–Harmsworth expedition but holding. A very good set. to Franz Josef Land, Koettlitz Island in the Franz Josef people’s editions, from the library of the dis- Land archipelago was also named after him. In 1897 he covery national antarctic expedition, with the returned to Dover with a polar bear, which stood in the library’s bookplate to the front pastedown of the first family’s surgery until 1960, when it went to the Dover book. The books formed part of the library on board Museum. However, despite the breadth of his expedi- the expedition ship Discovery, which carried Captain tion experience, his medical achievements, and inter- Scott’s Antarctic expedition between 1901 and 1904. It actions with Scott, Shackleton and Nansen, Koettlitz’s was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic death in 1916 passed almost unnoticed. Sometimes regions since James Clark Ross’s voyage 60 years ear- referred to as the “unsung hero” of the expedition, lier, and the books helped distract the men during the he appears to have been somewhat underappreciated long, dark winters. and underused by Scott: none of his work featured in the expedition’s final scientific reports, and his colour Reginald Koettlitz (1860–1916), one of two doctors ac- photographs, some of the first taken in Antarctica, re- companying the expedition, brought the set of books mained unpublished for almost 100 years. back to land, and they were passed down through his Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 46f. See Scott’s Forgotten Surgeon: Dr descendants. A physician and geologist, Koettlitz was Reginald Koettlitz, Polar Explorer, 2011. awarded the Royal Geographical medal for his role with the team, and is believed to be the first person to £3,750 [108878]

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One of ten copies printed on vellum 9 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. London: Medici Society; Riccardi Press Books, 1914

Octavo. Original vellum covers, titles to spine and front cover was a special collaboration between the Medici Society lettered gilt, green silk ties. With a plain dust wrapper, spine and Macmillan. The text was reprinted in the Riccardi lettered by hand, and brown linen slipcase. Illustrations by Press typeface, which had no italic, so extra spacing John Tenniel, from fresh electros taken from the original was used to recreate the emphasis of words printed in woodblocks, four of them slightly enlarged. A superb copy; italic in the original. The original Tenniel illustrations the jacket with some chips to extremities. were reproduced from fresh electros taken from the the riccardi press edition, number 4 of 10 cop- original woodblocks, although four of them had to be ies printed on vellum. A further 1,000 copies were slightly enlarged to fit the bigger page. printed on paper. The Riccardi Press was founded by Herbert P. Horne, who designed its typeface. It began Not in Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch. to be used as the imprint for Medici Society publica- £15,000 [108942] tions in 1909. This publication in the private press style

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The French Alice, inscribed with both his authorial pseudonym and his real name 10 CARROLL, Lewis. [Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; French.] Aventures d’Alice au pays des merveilles. London: Macmillan and Co., 1869

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, gilt roun- the Rev. C. L. Dodgson. This accounts for the great rar- dels with “Alice” motifs to covers, triple gilt rules to covers, ity of inscriptions by him using both of his names (his brown coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom standard forms being “from the Author” or “from C. blue linen chemise and blue quarter morocco slipcase. Fron- L. Dodgson”: the use of “Lewis Carroll” even by itself tispiece with tissue-guard, 41 illustrations by John Tenniel. being very unusual). Here we have the added humor- Binder’s ticket to rear pastedown. From the library of Justin G. Schiller, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Two ous touch of the author pretending that his real name minor stains to cloth, a very nice copy. is the alias of his pseudonym. first edition in french. an exceptional copy, Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch note that the bind- inscribed by the author with both his pseud- ing in most but not all copies has Macmillan at the foot onym and real name on the half-title, in his cus- of the spine above three gold lines. In this copy, the let- tomary violet ink: “Lewis Carroll: alias Charles Lut- tering is absent. It would be interesting to see whether widge Dodgson, Christmas, 1871.” This is a remark- this was true of all presentation and inscribed copies. able and highly unusual inscription, as Dodgson al- Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 73. See Edward Guiliano, “C. L. ways endeavoured to keep his two identities separate, Dodgson (alias Lewis Carroll)” in An Exhibition from the Jon A. Lind- both to protect his privacy and to prevent his serious seth Collection of C. L. Dodgson and Lewis Carroll, New York: The Grolier mathematical works from being linked with his books Club, 1998, pp. 17–19; Morton N. Cohen, Lewis Carroll: A Biography, New York, 1995, pp. 297–8. for children. In 1890 he even had The Stranger Circular printed – a leaflet sent to discourage people from ad- £17,500 [108866] dressing letters concerning his Lewis Carroll books to

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The French Alice in original cloth 11 CARROLL, Lewis. [Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; French.] Aventures d’Alice au pays des merveilles. London: Macmillan and Co., 1869

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, gilt roun- first edition in french. Dodgson hand-picked dels with “Alice” motifs to covers, triple gilt rules to covers, the translator, Henri Bué, who was the son of a French brown coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece with teacher and colleague of his at Oxford. This is the sec- tissue-guard, 41 illustrations by John Tenniel. Bookseller’s ond foreign-language edition of Alice; it was preceded ticket to front pastedown, binder’s ticket to rear pastedown. by the German translation earlier the same year. The Gift inscription dated 25 October 1876 to verso of front free endpaper. From the library of Justin G. Schiller, with his binding on this copy has Macmillan in gold above the bookplate to the front pastedown. Spine rolled and faded, three lines at the foot of the spine. tips rubbed, front hinge split but holding, rear hinge start- Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 73. ing, occasional spotting to contents. A very good copy. £1,750 [108867]

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The Italian Alice, London issue 12 CARROLL, Lewis. [Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Italian.] Le avventure d’Alice nel paese delle meraviglie. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872

Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered gilt, roundel with edge only is gilt, rather than all edges; and the endpa- “Alice” motif to covers, blind rules to covers, top edge gilt. pers are plain, rather than coated grey or green. Frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel. Spine faded, an excellent, bright copy. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 85. first italian edition, first issue, in the remain- £1,000 [108880] der binding. Williams, Madan and Green suggest that, though containing the first issue sheets, this form of the binding is probably a later one. There are some key differences between this and the first binding: the rules to the covers are blind-stamped, not gilt; the top

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The Italian Alice, Turin issue 13 CARROLL, Lewis. [Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Italian.] Le avventure d’Alice nel paese delle meraviglie. Torino: Ermanno Loescher, 1872

Octavo. Original morocco-grain orange cloth, spine lettered gilt, roundel with “Alice” motif to covers, blind rules to cov- ers, dark green coated endpapers. Frontispiece and illustra- tions by John Tenniel. Minor spotting, a little abrasion to front endpaper and short closed tear to front free endpaper, contents lightly foxed. A very good copy. first italian edition, second issue, with the To- rino (Turin) imprint. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 86. £2,250 [108928]

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The Russian Alice, translated by Nabokov while studying at Cambridge 14 CARROLL, Lewis. [Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Russian.] Ania v stranie chudes [Cyrillic]. Translated by V. Sirin [Vladimir Nabokov]. Berlin: lzdaterstov Gamayun, 1923

Octavo. Original blue paper-backed white boards, pictorial Nabokov made some minor alterations to the text, front cover illustrated by Zalshupin, top edge blue. Housed changing some of the characters’ names, and parody- in a blue cloth chemise and blue quarter morocco and cloth ing Slavic rather than British nursery rhymes. The work slipcase. With 12 illustrations by Sergei Aleksandrovich was one of Nabokov’s first publications. Throughout Zalshupin. A little rubbed, cheap paper stock browned as al- his career, Lewis Carroll was a powerful influence on ways, an excellent copy. his writing, nowhere more so than in Lolita. first edition of nabokov’s russian transla- tion. It was prepared by Nabokov at the age of 24 Lovett 793; Morgan/Houghton p. 132; Michael Juliar, Vladimir Nabok- ov: A Descriptive Bibliography (New York, 1986), A7.1 (variant a). while he was an undergraduate at Cambridge, and is an imaginative rendering of Dodgson’s classic, with strik- £12,500 [108934] ing illustrations in the Russian Constructivist style.

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The first printed version of Alice for the stage 15 (CARROLL, Lewis.) FREILIGRATH-KROEKER, Kate. Alice and Other Fairy Plays for Children. London: W. Swan Sonnenschein and Allen, 1880

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and vignettes to spine thor writes, “I have to express my sincerest gratitude and front board in gilt and black, all edges gilt, cream coated to Mr. Lewis Carroll for the permission to dramatize endpapers. Frontispiece with tissue-guards, 7 plates, 4 picto- his charming story.” On 6 November 1879 the author rial initials by Mary Sibree, and music scores to accompany presented a copy to Dodgson, which he sent back each play. An excellent copy. for inscription: “I may candidly confess, it would be first edition of the first printed dramatic a much higher gratification to me to possess a copy adaptation of the Alice stories, and the first version given to me by the author, with my name written in to appear without Tenniel’s illustrations. The volume it in her own hand”. Ten years later, on 19 December includes two illustrations of Alice and a picture ini- 1889 he notes in his diary “Went over to Birming- tial of Alice by Mary Sibree. The play was “intended ham to see a performance of ‘Alice’ (Mrs. Freiligrath- to be acted for children” (Cohen, p. 402) and includes Kroeker’s version) at the High School.” scenes from both Alice books, together with musical For a presentation copy of Through the Looking-Glass to settings for “Speak Roughly” and “Beautiful Soup”. a girl who acted in the first professional stage produc- Having failed to engage Arthur Sullivan to write some tion of Alice, see item 20 below. songs for a musical production in 1877, Dodgson Not in Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch. See Alice on Stage, 32–33. might have been expected to be protective of his cop- yright, but he proved amenable: in the preface the au- £2,500 [108887]

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Through the Looking-Glass (1871)

As with the first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass was published for the Christmas market but bears the following year’s date in its imprint. No copies are known with 1871 on the title. The first edition was 9,000 cop- ies. This time it was the last printing of the third edition, the 60th thousand, which caused trouble and was withdrawn. All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk

Presentation copy inscribed in the month of publication 16 CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872

Octavo. Original red cloth, title to spine gilt, gilt roundels 19 August 1864, and, as usual, stayed at Plumbley’s Ho- with “Alice” motifs to covers, triple gilt rules to covers, green tel in Freshwater. He called on the Tennysons at their coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom red Freshwater house, Farringford, on 27 July and returned linen chemise and green linen slipcase backed with red quar- with the Burnett family a couple of weeks later, as he ter morocco. Frontispiece with tissue-guard and 49 illustra- records in his diary on 17 August 1864: “Mr and Mrs tions by John Tenniel. Rubbed, cloth a little bubbled, hinges cracked, an excellent copy. Burnett came with me to Farringford, with the two children, Frank and Mary, of whom I took pictures”. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “Mary Burnett from Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 84; Dreaming in Pictures: The Photog- raphy of Lewis Carroll by Douglas Robert Nickel, Lewis Carroll, San the Author. Christmas 1871.” This is an early inscrip- Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2002; Wakeling, Lewis Carroll: The tion: Dodgson’s own copy was received on 6 Decem- Man and his Circle, p. 347. ber 1871. Mary Burnett (b. 1853) met Dodgson while on holiday with her parents, Robert French Burnett and £15,000 [108871] his wife, Harriet, on the Isle of Wight. Dodgson was there on holiday with his camera between 26 July and

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First edition in original cloth 17 CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872

Octavo. Original red cloth, title to spine gilt, gilt roundels darkened, hinges starting, some faint foxing to endleaves, with “Alice” motifs to covers, triple gilt rules to covers, green one leaf lightly creased; an excellent copy. coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom red first edition. linen chemise and red quarter morocco slipcase. Frontis- piece with tissue-guard and 49 illustrations by John Tenniel. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 84. Binder’s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine rolled and slightly £6,500 [108870]

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An unpublished acrostic poem to a young lame actress and her orphaned siblings 18 CARROLL, Lewis. Autograph 15-line acrostic poem, signed and dated 18 January 1878

Holograph manuscript in violet ink, 15 lines of verse. Dis- wife Maria by barely a year. The children were subse- bound bifolium with some spotting and soiling, and nicks quently cared for by Sophia Neate (1832–1908) with to extremities. some financial support from several friends, including this unpublished and otherwise unrecorded Dodgson and the actor Lionel Brough. Dodgson oc- acrostic poem was written by Dodgson for one of casionally visited the family, keeping an eye on their his child-friends, Jessie Josephine Scrivener, the first progress, and corresponded with the girls. words of the lines spelling out “Jessie Josephine”. The poem is written on the disbound printed title and Dodgson met Jessie after seeing her younger sister conjugate leaf from a copy of the final impression (41st Sarah “Sallie” Caroline (1868–1956) perform on stage: thousand, 1877) of the first edition of Through the Look- “When I first saw Sallie she was the première dan- ing-Glass; the second edition, 1878, commenced with seuse in the ‘Children’s Pantomime’ at the Adelphi – a 45th thousand. sweet looking and graceful creature: and when I made See Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 84. friends with the family, I found her quite as charming in real life as she had looked on the stage. She is now £7,500 [108950] 8 or 9; her elder sister Jessie, about 12, is lame (I fear for life), but is said to recite exceedingly well; the other two children are about 7 and 6 years old.” All four chil- dren are noted within this acrostic, with Jessie refer- enced as “elder sister” and Sallie as “La Petite”. Dodgson took a special interest in the two girls and their siblings, Harry (1872–1940) and Kate Jemima (b. 1869), particularly so after the children were orphaned. Their father Joseph Henry Scrivener (1829–1879), an actor who took the stage name Sinclair, survived his

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Inscribed to Minnie, first met in a railway carriage, in the rare white binding specially for presentation 19 CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Fifty-first thousand. London: Macmillan and Co., 1882

Octavo. Original white paper-covered boards, covers let- in a railway carriage with two of her sister and govern- tered and decorated in gilt, pale blue coated endpapers, all ess, on their way from Southwold after their summer edges gilt. Housed in a custom cream slipcase. Frontispiece holidays in August 1869. Mary’s daughter Audrey later with tissue-guard and 49 illustrations by John Tenniel. Two recounted the meeting: “They saw a clergyman on the newspaper clippings tipped-in to rear free blank. Spine dark- platform, passing and re-passing the carriage window; ened, boards gently bowed, board edges rubbed, small patch of abrasion to rear board, covers finger-marked, a few faint and, just as my children would have done, they hoped marks to contents. he wouldn’t get in. He did get in and amused them all the way to London with puzzles, paper toys and stories second edition, presentation copy in the de- … The friendship continued all through my mother’s luxe presentation binding, inscribed by the married life, and I remember him coming from the author on the half-title: “Mary Frances Fuller, with time I was quite a small child to stay with us” (Wake- the affectionate regards of her old friend the Author. ling, p. 256). Oct. 1882.” Mary “Minnie” Francis Fuller née Drury (1859–1935) was one of the girls with whom Dodgson Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 84a; Wakeling, E. Lewis Carroll: The formed a friendship, becoming a subject for his pho- Man and his Circle, 2015. tographs and recipient of his poems. She first met him £27,500 [108873]

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With an unusually lengthy inscription to the child actress who performed in the premiere of Alice in Wonderland 20 CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Fifty-Seventh Thousand. London: Macmillan and Co., 1887

Octavo. Original red cloth, title to spine gilt, triple gilt rules not give any publicity to his real name), permission to covers, gilt roundels with “Alice” motifs to covers, black was granted and Alice in Wonderland, “A Musical Dream coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom red Play, in Two Acts, for Children and Others,” opened quarter morocco flat-backed folding case, buff cloth sides. on 23 December 1886 at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Frontispiece with tissue-guard and 49 illustrations by John Dodgson’s twelve year-old friend Phoebe Carlo was Tenniel. Cloth a little marked, contents shaken, nicks to fore-edge of front free endpaper, very good. cast in the lead role of Alice, and the play was both a theatrical and critical success. third edition, presentation copy to the child actress who appeared in the first profession- Georgina Martin (b. 1876) and Edith Martin (b. 1880) al stage performance of alice. Inscribed on the were the two youngest children of David Martin (b. front free endpaper: “Presented to Georgina Martin by 1839), a domestic servant and groom, and his wife, Lewis Carroll as a memento of her having taken part Laura (b. 1842), of 15 Castle Street East, Marylebone, in the DreamPlay ‘Alice in Wonderland’ written by H. London. Dodgson presented both children with cop- Savile Clarke and first produced Christmas, 1886.” Fol- ies of Alice for performing in the Alice in Wonderland play lowing a few amateur stage versions of Alice, Dodgson (Diaries, Vol. 8, note 629). was convinced that his story had theatrical possibili- [Laid-in:] Christmas Greetings [from a Fairy to a ties and he tried unsuccessfully to engage Arthur Sul- Child]. [London: Macmillan, 1884]. Small broadsheet livan to write some songs for a musical production in (129 x 89 mm), printed on one side only. Williams- 1877. Madan-Green-Crutch 162. -- An Easter Greeting to “Ten years passed, and Charles was still looking for Every child who Loves “Alice.” [Oxford, 1876]. 3 pp. an appropriate way of mounting Alice in the West End. 16o (131 x 94 mm). Later edition. See Williams-Madan- Then, on August 28, 1886, he heard from Henry Savile Green-Crutch 116 Clarke, playwright, drama critic, and newspaper edi- Cohen, Lewis Carroll: A Biography, 1995; Williams–Madan–Green– tor, requesting permission to make an operetta of the Crutch 84b. Alice books” (Cohen, p. 435). After agreeing to a few of £25,000 [108874] Dodgson’s conditions (including insisting that Clarke

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Sent to Noël, born on Christmas Day, to console her while “ill of low fever” 21 CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Fifty-Seventh Thousand. London: Macmillan, 1887

Octavo. Original red cloth, title to spine gilt, triple gilt rules ford. Noël Jeune is mentioned in “Isa’s Visit to Oxford”, to covers, gilt roundels with “Alice” motifs to covers, black a 16-page manuscript composed by Dodgson as a me- coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece with tissue- mento for the actress and his close friend, Isa Bow- guard and 49 illustrations by John Tenniel. A very good copy. man, following her trip to Oxford in July 1888. Dodg- third edition, presentation copy, inscribed son wrote, “Then they rode in a tram-car to another by the author on the half-title: “Caroline Mar- part of Oxford, and called on a lady called Mrs. Jeune, garet Noël Jeune, from the author. June 29, 1888.” In and her little granddaughter, called ‘Noël’, because she Dodgson’s diary on the date of inscription he records, was born on Christmas Day (‘Noël’ is the French name “Called again on Mrs Jeune … Her grandchild, ‘Noël’ for ‘Christmas’).” (a girl of 9), is ill of low fever. I offered (and sent same Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 84b. day) a copy of Looking-Glass for her.” He met her on July 14 of the same year. Mrs Jeune was the widow of £5,000 [108875] Francis Jeune, the master of Pembroke College, Ox-

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Dodgson’s own copy of the poorly printed sixtieth thousand, angrily marked up by him for rejection 22 CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Sixtieth Thousand. London: (Richard Clay for) Macmillan and Co., 1893

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, triple rules to only four copies known in the original covers gilt, black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed cloth. In a situation reminiscent of the recalled in a custom red morocco-backed folding case, black cloth 1865 Alice, this is the suppressed impression of sides. Frontispiece with tissue-guard and 49 illustrations by Through the Looking-Glass. Dodgson summarises the John Tenniel. Front hinge starting, some faint foxing to outer printing problems that led to its suppression on the leaves, otherwise internally fresh. An exceptional copy. half-title here: “Received Nov. 21/93. Paper too white, charles dodgson’s annotated copy of the 26 pictures over-printed, 8 of them very bad”, and has third edition, 60th thousand, and one of annotated the text with 34 comments on the produc-

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tion faults (“very much over-printed, very bad indeed Only 60 copies of this impression had gone out when … very bad folding”). Dodgson made it a “point of Dodgson asked Macmillan to destroy the remainder, supreme importance, that all books, sold for me, but Dodgson escalated the dispute, halting the work- shall be the best attainable for the price”, and such ing-off of Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, and demanding was his dismay with the printing quality that it al- that “no more Wonderlands are to be printed, from most provoked the termination of his contract with the present electrotypes, till I give permission” (24 No- his long-time publishers. Dodgson wrote to Freder- vember 1893). Through the Looking-Glass remained out of ick Macmillan the same day he annotated this copy, print until 1897, although the whole of the impression complaining that “the book is worthless … much as was not in fact destroyed: Dodgson changed his mind I should regret the having to sever a connection that and had it rebound for distribution to charitable in- has now lasted nearly 30 years, I shall feel myself ab- stitutions, as had been done with the suppressed first solutely compelled to do so, unless I can have some edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In an unpub- assurance that better care shall be taken, in future, to lished census, Selwyn Goodacre traced four copies in ensure that my books shall be of the best artistic qual- the original cloth, though one of these is since lost. ity attainable for the money” (Letters, p. 995). Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 84b. £55,000 [108876]

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Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (1886)

The story of Alice’s adventures was originally told by Dodgson on a boat-trip up the river from Oxford to Godstow on 4 July 1862. At the suggestion of Alice Lid- dell, Dodgson then wrote it up in manuscript, with illustrations, forming a text about half the length of the final published book version. In December 1886 Mac- millan published the first facsimile reproduction of that manuscript in an edition of 5,000 copies. The original manuscript was presented by Dodgson to Alice Liddell on 26 No- vember 1864. It was subsequently auctioned at Sotheby’s, 3 August 1928, where it was bought by Rosenbach and later sold to the American collector Eldridge R. Johnson, who issued another (more accurate) facsimile edition. The manuscript was bought in 1948 for $50,000 and presented to the British Museum by American donors appreciative of Britain’s war efforts. The manuscript currently resides in the British Library. All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk

Inscribed for the Duchess of Albany, in the rare blue morocco presentation binding 23 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. Being a facsimile of the Original Manuscript Book afterwards developed into “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” London: Macmillan and Co., 1886

Octavo. Publisher’s presentation binding in blue morocco, which you made my children very happy. I think they titles and decorations to spine and boards gilt, inner den- will well remember the kind gentleman who spent so telles gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in much time with them in amusing them and telling custom quarter blue morocco and cloth solander box. With them stories.” 37 illustrations by the author. With the Duchess of Alba- ny’s bookplate on the front pastedown. Extremities a little Dodgson knew her late husband, Prince Leopold, rubbed, some very minor wear to tips, small split to head of Queen Victoria’s fourth son, who matriculated at Ox- front hinge; an excellent copy. ford on 27 November 1872; he had his portrait taken at first edition. presentation copy, inscribed Dodgson’s Tom Quad studio at Christ Church in 1875 by the author in his customary purple ink on and signed his name in Dodgson’s album. For a brief the half-title, “Presented to H.R.H. The Duchess of period during his studies the prince was romantically Albany, by the author, in grateful recollection of three linked with Alice Liddell, and, though nothing came of happy days, and of two sweet children, Aug. 6, 1889.” the romance, the two remained cordial. The duchess replied on 17 August, acknowledging the In 1883 Alice (by then Mrs Hargreaves) wrote to con- gift: “It gives me much pleasure as I am a great friend gratulate the prince on the birth of his first child, Alice, of Alice and her adventures. I must now also thank you at the same time inviting him to be godfather to her for your letter to me and the two charming books with second son, Leopold Reginald, also born that year. The

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following year the prince died of a brain haemorrhage, denly asked in a loud voice, ‘Why does he waggle his but it was not until June 1889 that Dodgson became ac- mouth like that?’ I was hastily removed by the lady-in- quainted with his widow, while staying Hatfield House waiting. Afterwards he wrote that he ‘liked Charlie but as a guest of Lord Salisbury. The Duchess was accom- thought Alice would turn out badly.’ He soon forgot all panied by her two children, Alice, and Charles, Duke this and gave us books for Christmas with anagrams of of Albany aged 6 and 5 respectively. Dodgson – per- our names on the fly-leaf.” haps influenced by the coincidence of the little girl’s This is one of a very few known copies in this unre- name – made gifts of several of his works, including corded presentation binding. By a letter to Macmillan the present example. Dodgson struck up a friend- of 17 December 1886, Dodgson is known to have re- ship with the children, and regularly sent them gifts quested three special copies, one in white vellum (the of puzzles or presentation copies of his books. Prin- ultimate copy, for Alice Liddell) and two in morocco cess Alice recalled their early friendship in her auto- (one for Alice’s mother, the other untraceable), which biography: “Doctor Dodgson or ‘Lewis Carroll’ was were ready in time to be inscribed on Christmas Day. especially kind to Charlie and me, though when I was five I offended him once, when, at a children’s party Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 194. at Hatfield, he was telling story. He was a stammerer £37,500 [108897] and being unable to follow what he was saying I sud-

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Inscribed to Jersey Lily, in the rare white binding specially for presentation, together with an autograph letter to her father 24 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886

Octavo. Original white paper-covered boards, spine re- August 1869, Dodgson writes: “Happening to be at my backed with vellum, covers lettered and decorated in gilt, publisher’s yesterday, I thought I might as well get the cream coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom book for your little girl at once – I hope you received green cloth folding case. With 37 illustrations by the author. it safe.” He goes on to ask for a photograph of Rozel: Covers a little rubbed and soiled, tips a little worn, superfi- “if you have ever had a good one taken of your little cial cracks to hinges but held firm by reback, contents clean; overall very good. daughter (a vignette of the head & shoulders would be the best form) I should be much obliged if you would first edition. presentation copy in the rare kindly allow me to purchase a print of it, as a reminis- presentation binding of gilt-stamped white cence of our very brief, tho’ pleasant acquaintance.” boards in imitation of vellum, with Dodgson’s presentation inscription in purple ink on the half-title: This style of white binding for presentation was Dodg- “Lily Falle, from the Author, Jan. 1887.” Albina “Lily” son’s preferred choice, a preference dating back to the Bertram (b. 1859) was the second daughter of Joshua first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, when he G. Falle (1820–1903), a judge and magistrate of the first ordered 50 copies for presentation in red cloth Royal Court of Jersey. On Dodgson’s visit to the island and a single copy for Alice herself in white vellum. in 1884, he records his first meeting with Lily: “I had provenance: sold at auction, 3 March 1958, Sotheby’s several pleasant hours with Judge Falle, his wife, and London, £17, buyer J. Schwartz, the book noted in the daughters; Rozel (now Mrs. Le Cornu) I had met in auction catalogue as lacking its spine. With the loosely London with her father but the beautiful Albina (“Lily” inserted bookseller’s description of James F. Drake, they call her) I had never seen before.” Inc, New York, describing the book as rebacked with Dodgson first met Rozel Falle in early August 1869, vellum. The long-established firm of James F. Drake at the United Hotel in London, and inscribed a copy ceased trading in 1965. of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for her on 7 August. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 194. It is Rozel’s copy to which Dodgson refers in the au- tograph letter that accompanies this book. Dated 8 £25,000 [108898]

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Inscribed to his friend and Christ Church colleague, in the rare white binding for presentation, with the original plain dust jacket 25 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886

Octavo. Original white paper-covered boards in imitation of with Dodgson on the subject of geometric conic sec- vellum, covers lettered and decorated in gilt, cream coated tions (see Cohen, p. 383), and succeeded Carroll as the endpapers, all edges gilt. With the plain dust jacket. Housed mathematical lecturer at Christ Church. Carroll photo- in a custom blue linen slipcase and blue morocco pull-off graphed him in June 1875. case. With 37 illustrations by the author. From the Private Collection of Justin Schiller, Christie’s New York, Wednesday Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 194. 9 December 1998, Lot 17. Spine slightly rolled, extremities a little rubbed; an excellent copy in the jacket with toned spine, £37,500 [108940] partial loss to spine panel and some chips to extremities. first edition. presentation copy, in a deluxe presentation binding, complete with the plain dust jacket, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “E. F. Sampson, from the Author. Jan. 87.” Edward Frank Sampson (1848–1918) was a Christ Church tutor and mathematician, also a long-standing friend and travelling companion of Dodgson’s; they visited Sandown and Eastbourne together. He worked

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Inscribed to his Limerick correspondent’s daughter, Violet, a future romantic novelist 26 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, lieutenant-commander in the Royal Navy and naval black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom historian. This copy is in the regular trade binding of purple straight-grain morocco solander box. Illustrated by red cloth. the author. Spine faded, a couple of marks and bumps to front cover, the odd spot to outer leaves. An excellent copy. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 194. Lovett, Lewis Carroll Among His Books: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Private Library of Charles Dodgson, first edition. presentation copy, inscribed 2005, p. 187 by the author on the half-title, “Violet Langbridge from the Author. July 20 1897.” Violet Langbridge £6,500 [108904] (1881–1963) was the youngest daughter of Frederick Langbridge, rector of St John’s, Limerick, who wrote books for children and was a correspondent of Dodg- son’s. Violet wrote a number of romantic novels; she married Archibald Colquhoun Bell (1880–1958), a

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Fine copy in original cloth 27 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom red cloth solander box. Spine a little rubbed, front hinge partly split but holding; an excellent, bright copy. first edition, first issue. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 194. £950 [108941]

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With the printed dust jacket 28 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, all edges gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by the author. An excellent copy in the jacket with rubbed edges, and some nicks to spine ends and tips. first edition, remainder issue with white end- papers, consisting of remainder sheets bound up per- haps as late as 1931, complete with the dust jacket. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 194. £1,750 [108902]

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The superb Eldridge Johnson facsimile, one of perhaps fifty copies only 29 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. [Vienna: Privately printed by Max Jaffe, for Eldridge Johnson, 1936]

Octavo. Original limp green morocco, double gilt rules, titles types including fine art reproductions and fine portfo- in gilt on front cover, yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. With lio prints for photographers; Arthur Jaffe had opened the green slipcase, as issued. Collotype facsimile reproduc- their New York office in 1926. The exact edition size is ing manuscript text and 37 illustrations by the author, 14 not recorded, though it is likely to have been only 50 full-page; mounted photograph of Alice Liddell at foot of last copies. “It is not too extravagant to say that this pro- page, with loose folded overslip. Extremities a trifle rubbed; an excellent, bright copy. duction is as near perfection as is possible for a printed facsimile. It has been said that if this facsimile is put first and only edition of this rare facsimile, pri- beside the original, the only way that they may be dis- vately printed for Eldridge Reeves Johnson (1867– tinguished is that the facsimile is in better condition” 1945), who bought the original manuscript from Dr (Selwyn Goodacre & Denis Crutch, Jabberwocky, 1978). Rosenbach in 1928. Johnson had made his fortune as co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 38a (n). The facsimile was printed by the Viennese printers £2,250 [108900] Max Jaffe, who specialised in lithographs and collo-

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The Nursery Alice (1889)

Dodgson decided to publish an abridged edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with colour illustrations for younger readers. He rejected the entire first edition of 10,000 copies, which was printed on toned paper, on the grounds that the pictures were “far too bright and gaudy”. Twelve copies were bound with unpriced titles as samples for the American market in October 1889. The first 4,000 rejected sheets were sent to America for publication under the imprint of Macmillan & Co. of New York, with title page dated 1890; most of the remainder of the first printing sheets formed the London “People’s Edition” of 1891, initially priced two shillings, then in 1897 (though not dated as such) reissued and re-priced one shilling. The second edition of 10,000 copies was printed on white paper with improved co- lour reproductions, dated 1890 and priced four shillings. It was re-issued priced one shilling in 1896 (though not dated as such). All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk

One of twelve copies sent as samples for the American market 30 CARROLL, Lewis. The Nursery Alice. Containing twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel’s illustrations to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” with text adapted to nursery readers, the cover designed and coloured by E. Gertrude Thomson. London: Macmillan and Co., 1889

Tall octavo. Original tan cloth-backed yellow glazed pictorial first edition, first issue, one of 12 copies pro- boards, title to front cover red and black, yellow coated end- duced as samples for the american market. Of papers. Housed in a custom yellow cloth solander box with the first print run, 12 copies were bound with unpriced black morocco label to spine lettered gilt. Colour frontis- title pages and received in the US on 29 October 1889. piece with tissue-guard and 19 colour illustrations after John Tenniel. Faint gift inscription to front free endpaper. Tips Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 215a. slightly worn, boards toned and slightly soiled, tissue-guard detached, spine cracking where glue has dried between pp. £6,000 [108910] 24–5, the odd spot to contents. An excellent copy.

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The first printing, repriced “one shilling” 31 CARROLL, Lewis. The Nursery Alice. London: Macmillan and Co., 1889 [1897]

Tall octavo. Original tan cloth-backed yellow glazed pictorial with priced titles, overprinted: Price One Shilling with boards designed by E. Gertrude Thomson, title to front cover an ornamental bar over the earlier price”, with plain red and black. Housed in a custom brown cloth velvet-lined white endpapers. These copies retain the original il- solander box, with twin morocco labels to spine lettered gilt. lustration of Alice and the Cheshire Cat on p. 34 with Colour frontispiece with tissue-guard and 19 colour illustra- Alice’s profile visible; the profile was removed in the tions after John Tenniel. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Spine rolled and darkened, boards toned, some second edition. wear to tips, internally fresh. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 215d. first edition, fourth issue. In 1897 all remain- £750 [108908] ing sheets of the rejected first printing were “made-up

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The improved second edition, presentation copy to young Ada, met at Margate 32 CARROLL, Lewis. The Nursery Alice. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890

Tall octavo. Original white cloth-backed white glazed picto- ything about the name ‘Lewis Carroll’” (Collingwood, rial boards designed by E. Gertrude Thomson, title to front The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll). cover red and black. With the glassine jacket. Housed in a custom red linen chemise and red cloth slipcase. Colour The most notable alteration between the first and frontispiece with tissue-guard and 19 colour illustrations af- second editions is the printing of the sheets on white ter John Tenniel. Spine gently rolled, minor wear to tips and rather than toned paper and the change to the illustra- board edges, some faint soiling to boards, spotting to edges tion of Alice and the Cheshire Cat on p. 34, removing of text block; an excellent, bright copy in the jacket with a lit- Alice’s profile. The first issue has “Price four shillings” tle spotting and short closed tear to spine panel. above the imprint. second edition (the first published in the Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 216. uk), first issue. presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, to “Ada Paine, £12,500 [108909] from the Author. Mar. 25, 1890.” Ada (Adelaide) Paine (1866–1920) met Dodgson at Margate in 1875; the two exchanged correspondence, and Dodgson even con- sented to send her his portrait, averse though he was to publicity. In the accompanying letter he took care to ask that her “ordinary acquaintances … are not told an-

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The second edition, repriced “one shilling” 33 CARROLL, Lewis. The Nursery Alice. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890 [1896]

Tall octavo. Original white cloth-backed white pictorial the first edition) were slow, Dodgson decided to re-is- boards designed by E. Gertrude Thomson, title to front cover sue the former, overprinted “Price One Shilling” with red and black. Colour frontispiece with tissue-guard and 19 an ornamental bar over the earlier price. colour illustrations after John Tenniel. Minor wear to head of spine and tips, a little light toning to boards, occasional light Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 216a. spotting to contents. £500 [108911] second edition, second issue. As sales of the sec- ond edition and the People’s Edition (the third issue of

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Dodgson on Tennyson’s great elegy 34 [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] Index to “In Memoriam.” London: (Bradbury and Evans for) Edward Moxon & Co., 1862

Small octavo. Original purple ribbed cloth, titles to front first edition of one of dodgson’s earliest cover gilt, border to covers blocked in blind, cream coated publications in book form. Endorsed by Ten- endpapers. Housed in a velvet-lined red cloth solander box. nyson, this anonymous index to his elegy on Arthur Ownership inscription of the journalist Charles J. Hadfield Hallam was suggested and edited by Dodgson, though (1821–1884) to verso of front free endpaper, bookplate of “one or more of his sisters chiefly compiled the work.” Thomas Hutchinson (Morpeth) and small bookseller’s de- scription to front pastedown. Inscription identifying Lewis The Index was also issued in sheets for binding with In Carroll as author to front free endpaper, facsimile of Dodg- Memoriam, by then in its eleventh edition, having been son’s signature tipped-in to rear pastedown. Some wax first published in 1850. stains to cloth, text block separating between pp. 40 and 41, Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 31. an excellent copy. £375 [108952]

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Presentation copy to an Oxford professor and his wife 35 CARROLL, Lewis. Phantasmagoria. London: Macmillan and Co., 1869

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, celestial mo- son made a photographic group portrait (now in the tifs to covers gilt, double rules to covers gilt, all edges gilt, V&A Museum) of Rolleston delivering a lesson at the brown coated endpapers. Housed in a custom blue silk che- Anatomical Museum at Christ Church to three other mise and pull-off blue morocco box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, men: William or Charles Robertson, demonstrator of title to spine gilt, richly decorated with gilt celestial motifs anatomy, and two undergraduates, A. V. Harcourt and and inlaid with green and brown morocco roundels. Book- plate of Jerome Kern to front pastedown, binder’s ticket and Heywood Smith. bookplate of John Gribbel to rear pastedown. Spine expertly Dodgson’s first major collection of poetry, this copy is repaired, cloth cleaned, hinges repaired, still a very good magnificently presented in a handsome morocco pull- copy. off case by the London binders Sangorski and Sutcliffe first edition, first issue. presentation copy, for E. P. Dutton of New York. For a similar case, see inscribed by the author on the half-title, “G. item 2 above. This copy was in the library of the great Rolleston and Mrs Rolleston, with the Author’s kind American composer Jerome Kern. in 1929 he made regards. Jan. 1869.” George Rolleston (1829–1881), a worldwide news by selling his prized book collection professor of anatomy and physiology at Oxford, was at a New York auction for a record of over $1.7 million. acquainted with Dodgson, who wrote in his diary on Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 68. 24 February 1863 that he called at the University Mu- seum “with a note for Dr Rolleston”. In 1857 Dodg- £4,500 [108865]

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Teasing Alice’s father 36 [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] The New Belfry of Christ Church, Oxford. A monograph by D.C.L. Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1872

Duodecimo, pp. 24. Original red wrappers, title printed in Alice, “this pamphlet is a humorous skit on the bald black to front cover. Provenance: J. V. Hodgson, with owner- wooden cube erected to contain the bells extruded ship inscription to front cover, dated August 1898, and gift from the Cathedral (when the Tower was opened up inscription to the half-title. Partial loss to spine, wrappers to the base of the spire), and placed over the beautiful slightly creased, loss to lower tips of front and rear wrappers, staircase leading to the hall, in the south-east corner short closed tear to head of rear wrapper, some light spots to contents. of Tom Quad”. first edition, first issue, with no mention of J. H. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 88. Stacy in the imprint. One of Dodgson’s Oxford squibs, £750 [108868] light-heartedly aimed at Dean Liddell, the father of

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The Hunting of the Snark (1876)

After the two Alice books, The Hunting of the Snark is the most enduring of Lewis Car- roll’s works. It was originally issued in March 1876 in an edition of 10,000 copies. The first edition is notable for its many variant bindings. The regular trade cop- ies were bound in buff cloth with designs printed in black. It was issued in a grey printed dust jacket with flaps, a notably early example of the format. But Dodgson also ordered copies for presentation in variant coloured cloths with the designs blocked in gold: white, red, dark blue, light blue, dark green, and light green are all recorded. Around the time of publication, Dodgson prepared one of his little letters to place inside the book, An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves “Alice”, printed in Oxford by Parker. He was racing to finish the manuscript on 22 March; Easter Sunday that year fell on 16 April. The book is bibliographically complete without it, but all five copies in this catalogue have the leaflet tipped or laid in. All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk

Inscribed on the day of publication, in the red and gold presentation binding 37 CARROLL, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark an Agony in Eight Fits. With nine illustrations by Henry Holiday. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876

Octavo. Original scarlet cloth, titles to spine gilt, illustra- gold”, and mentions that bindings in dark green are tions to front board gilt, green coated endpapers, all edges also available. On publication day, 29 March, Dodg- gilt. Housed in a custom red velvet-lined solander box. Fron- son went to London to inscribe copies, though only tispiece and 8 illustrations by Henry Holiday with tissue- 80 were ready that day. Dodgson initialled and dated guards. Binder’s ticket to rear pastedown. With the book- at least two copies in red cloth which he retained for plate of Alice R. Sandford to the front pastedown. Spine slightly rolled, covers a little rubbed, marginal ink spot to pp. himself (red was, after all, the colour of the two Alice 3–12; an excellent, bright copy. books), and presentation copies in red are known to others of his child-friends. The presentation copies he first edition. presentation copy, specially inscribed to two of his sisters that day are both in dark bound in red cloth and inscribed by the au- blue cloth; that to his adult friend Catherine Lloyd is thor on the day of publication on the half-title, dark green. In copies inscribed on publication day at “Alice Sandford from the Author. Mar. 29, 1876.” The auction since 1975 we trace seven copies in red (includ- book is inscribed just over a year after Dodgson last ing his own retained copy), five copies in blue, and one saw her, during a visit to Hatfield House in December in green. We cannot trace any presentation copy of this 1874, when he had noted in his diary that “even Alice title in a white binding, and we may conjecture that has grown out of my recollection”. these were not ready. On 21 March 1876 Dodgson wrote to Macmillan order- Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 115. ing special bindings for presentation: “100 in red and gold, 20 in dark blue and gold, 20 in white vellum and £7,500 [108884]

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Inscribed to Walter Crane’s daughter, in the green and gold presentation binding, the rarest of all recorded variants 38 CARROLL, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark. London: Macmillan, 1876

Octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine gilt, illus- proposed collaboration. Crane afterwards noted that tration to covers gilt, green coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Dodgson’s letters “gave one the impression of a most Housed in a custom green solander box. Frontispiece with particular person, and it is quite possible that he may tissue-guard and 8 illustrations by Henry Holiday. Binder’s have led Tenniel anything but a quiet life during the ticket to rear pastedown. Spine rolled and a little rubbed, time he was engaged upon his inimitable illustrations” rear hinge partly split, short tear to front free endpaper, a couple of light marks to contents, title page darkened from (Cohen & Wakeling, p. 337). tissue guard; overall, a very good, bright copy. This copy also contains a first issue presentation copy first edition. presentation copy, one of very of Dodgson’s Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves “Al- few copies specially bound in dark green ice” ([Oxford:] 1876) – the four-page pamphlet tipped- cloth and inscribed by the author on the in to the verso of the front free endpaper and inscribed half-title: “Beatrice Crane from the Author. Dec. 28, by the author on the title page: “Beatrice Crane from 1877.” Beatrice Crane was the daughter of Walter Crane Lewis Carroll, Dec. 28, 1877”. Many, perhaps most cop- (1845–1915), the popular children’s artist whom Dodg- ies of The Hunting of the Snark are found with the Easter son considered as a replacement for Tenniel after the Greeting pamphlet loosely inserted (Williams, p. 91). artist declined to illustrate any further books. Dodg- Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 115. son wrote to Crane on 27 November 1877 about com- missioning drawings for Phantasmagoria and “Bruno’s £17,500 [108883] Revenge”, but Crane was too busy to undertake the

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Inscribed to Dollie Barrett, in the rare blue and gold presentation binding 39 CARROLL, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark an Agony in Eight Fits. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, illustration to records in his diary a failed attempt to hand over a covers blocked gilt, green coated endpapers, all edges gilt. book (perhaps this very copy) to Dorothea: “Then Housed in a custom blue velvet-lined solander box. Frontis- called at Mr. W. Barratt’s hoping to see the five young piece with tissue-guard and 8 illustrations by Henry Holiday. ‘admirers’ he had told me of, specially Dorothea, to Binder’s ticket to rear pastedown. With the bookplate of whom I am to give a book. But I saw nobody: Mrs. Bar- Wilson Barrett to front pastedown. Spine rolled and faded, contents lightly spotted and marked, few small ink blots to ratt merely sending down one message after another to frontispiece, rear hinge partly split, a very good copy. the effect that she knew nothing about me (!)” (Wake- ling, p. 533). first edition. presentation copy, specially bound in blue cloth and inscribed by the au- The exact number of copies specially bound in blue thor on the half-title to “Dorothea Barrett from the cloth is uncertain, though it is certainly small, per- Author, May 5 ,83.” Dorothea (“Dollie”) Barrett was haps no more than the 20 originally called for. Edward one of the five children (three daughters and two sons) Wakeling, editor of the Lewis Carroll Diaries, and of Wilson Barrett (1846–1904), an English manager, Selwyn Goodacre, Carrollian bibliographer, located 12 actor, and playwright. Wilson Barrett first appears in copies bound in blue cloth in their census of Snark edi- Dodgson’s diaries on 28 March 1883 (p. 415), when tions, to which may be added the Mary C. Collingwood Dodgson saw him in The Silver King, regarded as the copy inscribed by Dodgson on the day of publication. most successful melodrama of the 19th century in Eng- Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 115; Wakeling, ed. Lewis Carroll’s land. It debuted on 16 November 1882, with Barrett as Diaries: Containing Journal 11, January 1877 to June 1883. Wilfred Denver. He played the part for 300 nights with- out a break, and repeated its success in W. G. Wills’s £15,000 [108882] Claudian (which Dodgson saw three times). Dodgson

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In the rare green and gold presentation binding 40 CARROLL, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876

Octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine gilt, illus- letter to Maud Standen, one of his “child-friends”, in tration to covers blocked gilt, green coated endpapers, all which he offered her a copy in the colour of her choice: edges gilt. Housed in a custom green velvet-lined solander “I have had them bound in various coloured cloths, box. Frontispiece with tissue-guard and 8 illustrations by with the ship and bell-buoy in gold: e.g. light blue, Henry Holiday. Binder’s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine ends dark blue, light green, dark green, scarlet (to match a little rubbed, front hinge split but holding, rear hinge partly split, front free endpaper partly loose, contents lightly toned ‘Alice’), and (what is perhaps prettiest of all) white, i.e. with a couple of creases and slight marks. a sort of imitation vellum, which looks beautiful with the gold” (18 December 1877). first edition, in the rare presentation bind- ing of dark green cloth, though the copy is un- Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 115. inscribed. Dodgson had the book specially bound in £3,750 [108881] an array of colours for presentation, as seen from his

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With the original printed dust jacket 41 CARROLL, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876

Octavo. Original buff boards, titles to spine black, illustra- in bookstalls without being taken out of paper, and so tions to covers in black, green coated endpapers, all edges can be kept in cleaner and more saleable condition”. gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom brown mo- Being conceived of as a temporary wrapper at point of rocco solander box. Frontispiece and 8 illustrations by Henry sale, the paper used for the jacket is inexpensive and Holiday with tissue-guards. Spine rolled, covers foxed, a lit- uncoated, liable to foxing and wear, and was almost tle spotting to contents; an excellent copy in the lightly foxed dust jacket, with some loss to spine ends, a couple of chips invariably discarded. Rather than repeating the deco- to extremities, short closed tears to spine panel and tape re- rative blocking of the front cover, as some 19th-century pairs to verso. publishers did, Macmillan printed on the front panel a first edition, with the scarce grey dust jack- letterpress title laid out in the style of a title page and, et. The printed dust jacket for The Hunting of the Snark on the back, advertisements for other Lewis Carroll is not the earliest recorded, but it has considerable books. interest as a particularly well-documented example. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 115. See G. Thomas Tanselle, Book- Dodgson’s letter of 6 February 1876 to his publisher, Jackets; Their History, Forms, and Use, Bibliographical Society of the Uni- versity of Virginia, 2011, p. 68. Alexander Macmillan, indicates the thinking behind its use: he asks that the book’s title be printed on the £17,500 [108885] spine of the paper wrapper, so that the book “can stand

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Puzzling it out, one letter at a time 42 CARROLL, Lewis. Doublets: A Word Puzzle. London: Macmillan and Co., 1879

Octavo. Original red cloth, title to front cover gilt, blindstamp each letter alteration; the winning chain was the one to front cover. Housed in a custom quarter red morocco solan- with the fewest links. The first puzzle, for example, was der box and chemise. Covers a little finger-marked and very “Head” to “Tail” (head–heal–teal–tell–tall–tail), and ap- slightly cockled, contents lightly toned, an excellent copy. peared in the March issue of Vanity Fair in 1879. first edition in book form. The game was invented by Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 133a. Wakeling, Lewis Carroll’s Games Dodgson for Julia and Ethel Arnold, “two little girls who and Puzzles, 1992, p. 39. found nothing to do” on Christmas Day 1877. It consists of transforming a given word into another, changing £750 [108886] only one letter at a time, and forming a new word with

A new use for the chess board 43 [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] Lanrick: A Game for Two Players. 1879–81

4 sets of instructions for the Lanrick game. Housed in a black wrote that he had been “inventing it for almost two linen chemise and black quarter morocco and cloth slipcase. months, and the rules have changed almost as often Some light foxing and creasing, second edition with some as you change your mind during dinner when you say chips and tears to extremities. In very good condition. ‘I’ll have meat first then pudding – no, I’ll have both at Lanrick, a chessboard game for two players, is men- once – no, I’ll have neither’” (Gardner, p. 134). tioned in Dodgson’s diary on 31 December 1878 as his new invention, “Natural Selection, afterwards called 1) A Game for Two Players. A single folded leaf, dated 16 Lanrick” – a reference to a line of Sir Walter Scott’s January 1879: The rules of the game are printed here poem “The Lady of the Lake”: “The muster-place be without a title. The sheet is annotated by Dodgson, Lanrick-Mead.” The game passed through many it- who added the game’s title, and made corrections in erations: in a letter to May Forshall in 1870, Dodgson manuscript in his customary violet ink: “Lanrick. ‘The

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muster-place be Lanrick mead’”; Rule 1 was altered 4) Bifolium, printed on both sides, dated July 1881: from “The men are set alternately, on any border- second edition. presentation copy from Dodg- squares” to “The Players set their men, in turn, on any son to Agnes Smith, “Agnes Smith, from Lewis Car- border squares”. Williams–Madan–Green describe roll”, with “July 1881” inscribed to verso in violet ink this as “an anonymous early form” of Lanrick, but we (in Dodgson’s hand?) The second edition was not is- suggest that perhaps it is a proof copy of the game, as sued separately, but appeared in the August 1881 edi- Dodgson records the receipt of ten proof copies on 11 tion of the Monthly Packet. Agnes Smith was the daugh- February 1879, “in nearly its final state, I hope”. Wil- ter of Charles Smith, vicar of Tarrington, and his wife, liams–Madan–Green–Crutch state “there is no further Frances Elizabeth (née Boddington). Dodgson writes reference to this edition”, but they do not note the ex- in his Diaries of the day he met Agnes and her family on istence of the following item: 6 September 1877: “Met Mr. Dymes with a friend (over from Brighton for the day) Mrs. Smith, with two girls 2) A single folded leaf, dated 20 February 1879: First (Agnes and Gracille, 10 and 8) and a boy, Reginald: edition (?) Not noted in Williams–Madan–Green– Agnes is beautiful.” Crutch. The pamphlet is anonymous but prints the al- terations made by Dodgson to the previous item. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 135; 142; Gardner, The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll’s Mathematical Recreations, 1996. 3) 25 October 1880: A cyclostyled copy of the manu- script for the game, written by Dodgson in violet ink. £6,500 [108888]

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A newly invented wordgame 44 [CARROLL, Lewis.] Mischmasch. [Oxford: University Press, November] 1882

Bifolium, printed on brown wove paper, as issued; 4 pp. other side “tries to discover a common English word Housed in a custom black velvet-lined solander box. Small in which those letters appear adjacent to one another” erasure mark to front cover; a fine copy. (Gardner, p. 141). For example, “emo” would become Mischmasch, a wordplay game for two players, was first “lemons”. Dodgson at Auction 1893–1999 records only published in The Monthly Packet in June 1881 (pp. 491– the author’s own copy selling at auction (Frank Irving 2). This is a revised anonymous reprint of that article, Fletcher sale, Anderson Galleries, 19 April 1932, lot with some minor revisions. The article was originally 230) and no copy is listed by ABPC since 1975. Scarce. credited to Lewis Carroll, rules 5 and 6 were trans- Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 155; Garder, The Universe in a Hand- posed, and a note requesting comments and criticism kerchief: Lewis Carroll’s Mathematical Recreations, 1996. was appended. The game requires two sets of players, of which one proposes a nucleus of letters, and the £2,750 [108889]

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Rhyme? And Reason? (1883)

The text is made up of comic poems chiefly reprinted from Phantasmagoria and the whole of The Hunting of the Snark, together with a few new pieces. The first edition was issued on 6 December 1883 in an edition of 3,000 copies. The trade binding was olive green cloth with three-line gilt frames surrounding cen- tral devices, echoing the Alice bindings, but, as with The Hunting of the Snark, Dodg- son ordered variant bindings for presentation. All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk

Presentation copy to John Tenniel 45 CARROLL, Lewis. Rhyme? And Reason? With sixty-five illustrations by Arthur B. Frost and nine by Henry Holiday. London: (R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor for) Macmillan and Co., 1883

Octavo. Original green cloth, covers with central gilt devic- further commissions from Dodgson after Through the es, spine lettered in gilt, three-line gilt ruled borders and Looking-Glass, but out of respect Dodgson kept him on at head and tail of spine, dark green coated endpapers, all his list for presentation copies of his later titles. Dodg- edges yellow. Housed in a custom purple morocco-backed son received the first 12 copies of Rhyme? And Reason? solander box and chemise. Frontispiece with tissue-guard, on publication day, and sent this copy out in the first illustrated in the text throughout, 24 full-page. Spine slightly rolled, extremities a little rubbed, spine and edges batch of presentations the following day. dust-soiled, marks of bookplates removed from both past- provenance: (1) sold at auction, Sotheby’s London, 3 edowns, offsetting from tissue guard onto frontispiece Dec. 1915, £6 to renowned New York bookseller George and title, text block cracked between pp. 80–1 but holding; D. Smith (1879–1920); 2) his sale, Anderson Galleries overall a very good copy. New York, 24–25 May 1920. Smith had purchased at So- first edition. a remarkable presentation theby’s several other Carroll titles inscribed to Tenniel, copy inscribed by the author to john tenniel which were also in his Anderson Galleries sale. on the half-title in purple ink: “J. Tenniel, with sincere regards from the Author. Dec. 7/83.” Never a close per- Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 160. sonal friend of the author, Tenniel famously refused £17,500 [108890]

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Inscribed to Lady Maud Wolmer, one of very few copies bound in vellum for presentation 46 CARROLL, Lewis. Rhyme? And Reason? London: Macmillan and Co., 1883

Octavo. Original vellum, titles to spine gilt, triple rules to invented some of the early chapters in Sylvie and Bruno covers gilt, black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed expressly for the Cecil children” (Letters p. 212n). This in a custom cream cloth slipcase. Frontispiece with tissue- copy is inscribed to Maud just a few months after her guard, illustrated in the text throughout, 24 full-page. Vel- marriage to William Waldegrave Palmer, future 2nd lum toned, boards bowed with some light spotting, some Earl of Selborne, on 27 October 1883; he was styled light marks to contents, front hinge starting, rear hinge slightly sprung; a very good copy. Viscount Wolmer between 1882 and 1895. Dodgson re- mained friends with Lady Wolmer after her marriage: first edition, one of only five known cop- in the summer of 1889 he took his child-friend the ac- ies in the rare vellum presentation binding, tress Isa Bowman to lunch with the Wolmers and their inscribed by the author on the half-title, “Lady daughter Mabel, nicknamed “Wang”. Maud Wolmer with the sincere regards of the Author. Feb. 9, 1884.” Lady Maud Wolmer (née Cecil) was the One of an unrecorded but evidently small number of elder daughter of future Prime Minister Robert Cecil, copies bound in vellum; this is the only such copy re- 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. She first met Dodgson in corded by ABPC having sold at auction in the last 30 1871 on a visit to Hatfield House when she was a lit- years. Dodgson’s preference for a white binding for tle girl: he spent three nights there to help celebrate a presentation dates back to the first Alice, but vellum is a birthday, and described the visit as “one of the pleas- difficult and expensive material to work with and Mac- antest visits I have ever spent” (Diary 6, 2001, p. 165). millan’s binders more often supplied paper textured in Dodgson returned the following year, and again at the imitation of white morocco (see following item). end of the year, when “he took up the ritual of spend- Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 160. ing New Year’s Day at Hatfield. Dodgson’s story-telling became very much a part of his visits, and Dodgson £4,500 [108894]

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Inscribed to “pretty little” Joanna, in the rare white binding specially for presentation, with an original acrostic poem 47 CARROLL, Lewis. Rhyme? And Reason? London: Macmillan and Co., 1883

Octavo. Original white paper stamped in imitation of moroc- marrying him on 23 December 1866. Dodgson attend- co, title to spine gilt, triple gilt rules to covers, gilt roundels ed their wedding and kept in touch with the family, to covers with “Alice” motifs, all edges gilt, dark green coated occasionally dining at their home in Putney and invit- endpapers. Housed in a brown linen chemise, and brown ing Charles Pollock to call when he visited Oxford to quarter morocco and cloth slipcase. Frontispiece with tissue- oversee the local assizes. Dodgson records in his di- guard, illustrated in the text throughout, 24 full-page. Very skilfully, almost imperceptibly rebacked, corners worn, some ary that on 24 June 1866 he visited the family and “saw marks to covers, front hinge split but holding, rear hinge start- the pretty little Joanna”. A subsequent visit in July 1872 ing, some light foxing to first few pages, very good. found that “Joa [has] grown out of all recollection”. first edition. presentation copy in the de- This book, inscribed seven months after publication, luxe binding, inscribed by the author to Joan- is in a special white binding, Dodgson’s preferred col- na de Morlot Pollock on the half-title, with a six-line our for presentation. Accompanying it is an undated acrostic poem that spells “Joanna”: “Joa Pollack from three-page autograph letter signed from Dodgson to the Author: in memory of an Awful Afternoon”, dated Joanna, laid down to the front pastedown. Dodgson 4 July 1884 at the end. teases her about her greying hair and writes, “I had Joanna de Morlot Pollock (1862–1949) was the step- fancied you were hardly more than 35. How deceptive daughter of Dodgson’s cousin Amy Menella Dodgson appearances are!” In closing he asks, “I’m not quite (1842–1922). Joanna was born to Sir Charles Edward clear that I like your calling me ‘Mr Dodgson’. Would Pollock (1823–1897), a High Court judge and last baron not ‘Cousin Charles’ be more friendly?” of the Court of Exchequer, and his second wife Geor- Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 160. gina (1838–1864). Amy became Charles’s third wife, £7,500 [108891]

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Inscribed to Emmie, first met in a railway carriage, in the superbly white Japanese vellum binding specially for presentation 48 CARROLL, Lewis. Rhyme? And Reason? London: Macmillan and Co., 1883

Octavo. Original Japanese vellum, title to spine gilt, triple gilt had been written for one of her sisters on 6 April 1876 rules to covers, gilt roundels with vignettes to covers, pale grey in her copy of The Hunting of the Snark. Since the acros- coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom green tic features all of them, Emmie apparently wanted the and white solander box. Frontispiece with tissue-guard, illus- acrostic in a book she owned. The first letters of each trated in the text throughout, 24 full-page. Small wormhole line spell out their names. It begins with “Maidens if to head of spine, front hinge cracked and partly separated at head, rear hinge with spot of worming to foot (also affecting you love the tale …” two pages) and hinge repaired, still a very good copy. Dodgson had a long established preference for white first edition, in a rare presentation binding, bindings for special presentation copies, so he must have inscribed by the author on the half-title in purple been pleased with this unusual variant binding. Instead ink: “Emmie Wyper, with the affectionate regards of of natural vellum, which has a tendency to bow the un- her old friend the Author. November 14 1885.” Emily derlying boards and to discolour, this binding uses Japa- (“Emmie”) Wyper née Draper first met Dodgson with nese vellum, a thick handmade paper polished to resem- her two sisters, Minnie and Ella, and their parents on ble vellum, and has retained its bright whiteness. a railway journey in 1869, beginning a close friendship Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 160; Cohen, Lewis Carroll: A Biogra- that lasted for 25 years. On the free endpaper, Emmie phy, 1995, p. 468. has re-written in beautiful calligraphy an acrostic that £5,000 [108943]

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With a clipped signature 49 CARROLL, Lewis. Rhyme? And Reason? London: Macmillan and Co., 1883

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, triple gilt rules to covers, gilt roundels with vignette to covers, dark green coated endpapers, all edges yellow. Housed in a cus- tom green cloth slipcase. Frontispiece with tissue-guard, il- lustrated in the text throughout, 24 full-page. With the book- plates of Joseph Bowstead Wilson and Simon Nowell-Smith to the front pastedown. An exceptional copy. first edition, the regular trade cloth binding, this copy with Dodgson’s signature tipped-in to the first blank. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 160. £1,000 [108893]

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Presentation copy, inscribed to a child-friend in the name of Lewis Carroll 50 CARROLL, Lewis. Christmas Greetings (from a Fairy to a Child). [London: Macmillan and Co., 1884]

Sextodecimo (16mo), single leaf, printed on one side only. even earlier, when he was in pursuit and he rightly as- Unbound as issued, printed on paper watermarked “E. Tow- sumed that the fame of the author of the Alice books good Fine”. Fine condition. would help to break the ice with the parents of likely first separate edition, presentation copy, candidates” (Cohen, p. 191). Originally written in 1867, inscribed by the author in his customary purple ink, this short poem was first published in 1869, when it “Dorothea Winterbotham, from Lewis Carroll. A me- appeared in Phantasmagoria with slight variations. This mento of Xmas, 1889.” Dodgson only used his famous poem also appears as the final text on the last page of pseudonym in presentations to child-friends, as op- his 1886 facsimile, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (1886). posed to the usual “from the Author” inscription. provenance: Private Collection of Justin Schiller, Although he used the name of Lewis Carroll to avoid Christie’s New York, Wednesday 9 December 1998, Lot all personal publicity, Dodgson “broke his rule of dis- 15. In a plastic sleeve with the Schiller bookplate. avowal often, usually with children whose friendships had ripened to the point where he wished to confide in Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 162. them, to share a great secret with them, but sometimes £2,500 [108914]

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Inscribed to Mabel Amy Burton 51 CARROLL, Lewis. A Tangled Tale. London: Macmillan and Co., 1885

Octavo. Original red cloth, title to spine gilt, triple gilt rules the Author. Mar. 29 1886.” For the recipient Mabel Amy to covers, gilt roundels with motifs to covers, dark green coat- Burton (b. 1869), see item 5 above. ed endpapers. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and red quarter morocco and cloth slipcase. Frontispiece with tissue- Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 182. guard and 5 illustrations by Arthur B. Frost. Spine faded and £3,750 [108895] gently rolled, front hinge starting but text block tight, a little spotting to endleaves; an excellent, bright copy. first edition. presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “Mabel Burton from

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In the original cloth 52 CARROLL, Lewis. A Tangled Tale. London: Macmillan and Co., 1885

Octavo. Original red cloth, title to spine gilt, triple gilt rules to first edition. The book consists of ten mathemati- covers, gilt roundels with motifs to covers, dark green coated cal problems, which originally appeared in the Monthly endpapers. Housed in a custom red cloth slipcase with brown Packet, between April 1880 and May 1885. Dodgson morocco label. Frontispiece with tissue-guard and 5 illustra- called the puzzles “knots” – a reference to Alice’s re- tions by Arthur B. Frost. With the bookplate of Bertodano Solo mark to the Mouse in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, “A to the front pastedown. Spine slightly faded, front hinge split but holding, short closed tear to front free endpaper, occa- knot! Oh, do let me help undo it!” sional light spotting to contents. An excellent copy. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 182. £300 [108896]

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The rare suppressed issue, complete with the playing card, counters, and envelope 53 CARROLL, Lewis. The Game of Logic. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front cover At least 50 copies were bound in red cloth, as here, gilt, black coated endpapers. With the playing card, 9 playing though the bibliographers have not identified any counters (4 pink and 5 grey), and printed envelope as issued. copies of the American issue. In Dodgson’s letter to Housed in a custom red linen chemise and red quarter mo- Macmillan on the subject he declared that “they will rocco and cloth slipcase. With the bookplate of Beverly Chew do very well for the Americans, who ought not to be to the front pastedown. Bookseller’s ticket to verso of front free endpaper. Spine slightly rolled; a superb copy. very particular as to quality, as they insist on having books for very cheap … They must not begin to be sold first edition. the rare suppressed issue, de- in America until the English Edition is ready … I would scribed by Williams, Madan, and Green as “a mystery still like the 50 copies bound, as already ordered.” Ac- edition”. Once again, Dodgson decided to reject a first companying the book are a playing board marked in a edition due to the poor printing quality. He noted in lattice pattern and coloured counters; Dodgson’s aim his diary on 5 December 1886 that “the printing of The with the game card was to depict syllogistic reasoning Game of Logic (by Baxter at Oxford) has not been a suc- in such a way that even a child could understand it. cess: and I wrote today to Macmillan my decision to have it printed again by Clay, for England, and send these 500 Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 193. to America – just what happened in ‘65 with Alice, when £3,000 [108905] the first 2,000, done at the University Press, turned out so bad that I condemned them to the same fate.”

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The first published edition, presentation copy with an accompanying autograph letter to a female student of logic 54 CARROLL, Lewis. The Game of Logic. London: Macmillan and Co., 1887

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt. pages easy, I think: & perhaps it will help you to know Complete with original printed envelope, containing the whether you are likely to care to learn the subject. As separate card-diagram, and 9 counters (4 pink and 5 grey). there are more than 40 years between our ages, perhaps With a custom red linen chemise and red quarter morocco you won’t be offended if I sign myself, yours affection- and cloth slipcase. Wood-engraved diagram frontispiece ately, C. L. Dodgson. and numerous diagrams in text. Bookplate of Justin Schil- ler (Christie’s New York, Wednesday 9 December 1998, Lot Dodgson was 62 at the time of writing, making Bes- 19) to front pastedown. Spine slightly faded, pp. 35–7 slightly sie probably around 20 years old – too young for his creased, an excellent, bright copy. “Lewis Carroll” signature (although interestingly he second (first published) edition. presentation does sign both the envelope and board “L.C.”) The copy, with an accompanying letter, inscribed text is not in Letters. She may have been a member of by the author on the half-title, “Bessie Badcock, the Badcock family, furniture-makers, of Oxford. In a from the Author. Feb. 23, 1894.” With the board and letter of 12 June 1883 to J. R. Dasent, Dodgson makes original envelope each additionally inscribed, “Bessie reference to a Messrs Badcock, whom he recommends Badcock, from L.C.” Together with an autograph letter for making the legs for a slab of elm given to Christ signed (“C. L. Dodgson”) to Bessie Badcock presenting Church to be made into a table for the Common Room this copy, also dated 23 February 1894. (see Letters, pp. 497–8). Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 196. My dear Bessie, I feel vexed about your disappointment in not being able to go on with the Logic Class, & I hope £7,500 [108947] this may make up for it a little. You will find the first few

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First published edition, with the playing card, counters, and envelope as issued 55 CARROLL, Lewis. The Game of Logic. London: Macmillan and Co., 1887

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, and black coated endpapers. With the playing card, 9 playing counters (4 pink and 5 grey), and printed envelope as issued. Spine gently rolled and a little faded, a little foxing to edges of text block and a couple of spots to outer leaves. An excel- lent copy. second (first published) edition. This edition is dated a year later than the suppressed first edition (see item 53 above). Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 196. £1,000 [108906]

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Sylvie and Bruno

Sylvie and Bruno was the last major work issued by Dodgson. It grew around two stories, “Fairy-Sylvie” and “Bruno’s Revenge”, which had first appeared in Aunt Judy’s Magazine. The first volume was published in December 1889, the second and concluding vol- ume in December 1893. Each was priced 7/6 on publication. Surviving dust jack- ets of Sylvie and Bruno Concluded often have over-stamps on the spine repricing the volume 8/6. All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk

The genesis of Sylvie and Bruno 56 CARROLL, Lewis. “Bruno’s Revenge.” In: Aunt Judy’s May-Day Volume for young people. No. 20. Edited by Mrs Alfred Gatty. London: Bell and Daldy, 1867

Octavo. Original blue-green wrappers, titles to spine and the touches are so exquisite, one would have thought front cover black. Housed in a custom green linen chemise nothing short of intercourse with fairies could have and green cloth slipcase. Spine ends a little worn, some ton- put them into your head”. ing to wrappers, a little light foxing to contents. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 60; Collingwood, The Life and Let- first edition of the story that eventually formed ters of Lewis Carroll, p. 109. the nucleus for Sylvie and Bruno. The editor, Marga- ret Gatty, was delighted: “the story is delicious. It £975 [108913] is beautiful and fantastic and child-like … Some of

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Presentation copies, each volume inscribed to May Wilcox on the respective days of publication 57 CARROLL, Lewis. Sylvie and Bruno, with forty-six illustrations by Harry Furniss; [together with:] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, with forty-six illustrations by Harry Furniss. London: Macmillan and Co., 1889 & 1893

2 works, octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spines gilt, black Wilcox from her affectionate Cousin the Author Dec. coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded with 12. 1889”, in purple ink; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, “May the dust jacket priced at 7/6, without the over-price sticker. Wilcox, with the Author’s love. Dec. 27, 1893”, in black Housed in custom red linen chemises and red morocco slip- ink. No earlier presentation copy of Sylvie and Bruno is cases. Frontispieces with tissue-guards, illustrations in the known and the Concluded inscription is dated two days text by Harry Furniss. Provenance: May Wilcox from the Au- thor, as above; by descent (?) to her niece (?) – Laura Beatrice before publication. May Wilcox was the wife of Dodg- Allen, signed on the front free endpapers verso. The Rosen- son’s cousin, Reverend Arthur Wilcox. Dodgson had bach Company, booksellers, with their stock numbers 230/3 often visited Whitburn, where the Wilcox family was and 230/1 and price-code “hvors (13250)”. Two leaves of in- originally based, and composed “Jabberwocky” there serted advertisements at the end of Sylvie and four leaves of during an evening of verse-making. He remained a integral advertisements and an integral blank at the end of frequent correspondent with the Wilcox siblings, and Concluded; Sylvie quires Y and Z transposed. Spines faded, cloth continued to visit his cousins after they married and a little bubbled, a couple of faint marks to covers, hinges of moved away. Sylvie and Bruno split but holding. An excellent, bright set. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 217 & 250; Wakeling, Lewis Carroll: first editions, first issues. presentation cop- Child of the North, 1995, p. 174. ies, inscribed by the author at the time of publication on the half-titles: Sylvie and Bruno, “May £2,500 [108918]

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First edition of both parts 58 CARROLL, Lewis. Sylvie and Bruno; [together with:] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan and Co., 1889 & 1893

2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spines gilt, contents; jacket of Sylvie and Bruno Concluded a little toned with black and brown coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Sylvie and some small chips and nicks to extremities. Bruno Concluded with the plain dust jacket with the 8/6 over- first editions. price sticker. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. Sylvie and Bruno with some discolouration to boards, some light spotting to Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 217 & 250. £750 [108922]

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“I promise you that I will never invite you again” – Dodgson teases one of his child-friends 59 DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge. Autograph letter signed to Charlotte Jane Rix. Eastbourne: 21 August 1890

Bifolium (175 x 140 mm). Autograph letter, manuscript in him was that he was illustrating another book he was violet ink. Housed in an acetate window within quarter pur- writing, which he hoped would be out by next Xmas ple morocco and cloth drop case, with purple morocco label twelve-month.. .. Mr. and Mrs. Furniss were very kind lettered gilt to front cover. In fine condition. and after dinner I went down with Mr. Dodgson and In characteristically teasing terms, Dodgson writes to Mr. Furniss to his studio. I saw the first drawing for the one of his child friends: “My dear Lottie, I’m so sorry book; it is most absurd and will come in with a piece to have done what you don’t like, in asking you to come of poetry like the Walrus and the Carpenter. Mr. Fur- for a visit. But you needn’t be afraid that I shall ever say niss showed me some drawings he had done for a new another word about it. I promise you that I will never children’s book that is coming out called Romps. They invite you again, or mention the subject to you, unless were splendid, and while Mr. Dodgson was talking to you yourself give me a hint that you would like to come! a Mr. Barber (who had come to show him some pho- (‘And that’, says Lottie to herself, ‘is just about as likely tographs and who has a good picture in the Academy as that I should jump over the moon!’) …” The letter this year) I had quite a talk with him. He is very short continues in similar vein over three pages and is signed and has red hair and he had on his working jacket, and “Your penitent and loving friend, C. L. Dodgson”. I liked him very much. He has three children but I only Sisters Charlotte and Edith Rix were close friends of saw two: a boy and a girl, both rather pretty (about 4 or Dodgson. On 30 May 1890, Dodgson took Charlotte 5 I should think) and lots of the children in the book Rix (1867–1952) to Furniss’s studio. “Spent day in town. are taken from them. We were in the Studio about an I called on ‘Louie’ Ibis, at her school in St. James’s Ter- hour, and I couldn’t help thinking, how six months ago race; I took her with me to Mr Furniss where we had I little thought I should ever find myself in Mr. Furniss’s luncheon and a business talk” (Diaries, p. 436). Char- studio, with another artist and Lewis Carroll, talking lotte recorded the outing in a letter to her mother (Let- to them just as if they were anybody else, and hearing ters, pp. 578–80): “He told me that he had business Lewis Carroll and Mr. Furniss discuss his new book!” with an artist who would give us some dinner. So we Morton Norton Cohen, Edward Wakeling (eds.), Lewis Carroll and His started. And on the way he told me that the artist was Illustrators: Collaborations & Correspondence, 1865–1898. that Harry Furniss who draws those splendid parlia- £3,500 [108907] mentary pictures in Punch and that his business with

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Eight or Nine Wise Words (1890)

Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing is a small stitched pamphlet which, in its final form, is accompanied by The Wonderland Postage Stamp Case and a printed pink envelope containing both. According to Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch, the Stamp Case was produced first, in March 1890. On its first publication in June 1890, the Wise Words was accompa- nied by the second edition of the Stamp Case, both enclosed together within the first edition of the envelope. There were several later printings of all three parts. Green notes that Emberlin still had copies for sale in 1944. All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk

Presentation to the future bishop of Oxford 60 CARROLL, Lewis. The Wonderland Postage Stamp Case. Oxford: Emberlin and Son, March 1890

Folded card (97 x 78 mm). Stamp case with pictorial covers, curred to me when I got home this afternoon that as containing 12 small sewn pockets to hold stamps from 1/2d your youngest daughter is so interested in Lewis Car- to 1s in value, in the original linen-backed pictorial sleeve. roll, she might like to have the enclosed relic … I am Housed in a custom blue linen chemise, blue folding presen- sure he would have liked me to give it to a little girl tation case and quarter blue morocco. From the Private Col- – specially.” Subsequently, in a letter dated 4 February lection of Justin Schiller, Christie’s New York, Wednesday 9 December 1998, Lot 20. A few light marks and a little foxing. 1932, signed “Thomas Oxon”, he gives permission to In excellent condition. Miss Bartlett to loan the gift to the 1932 centenary ex- hibition (“it is, at least, yours, and you can do what you first edition, first issue. presentation copy, like with it”). inscribed by the author on the lower inside bor- der, “T. B. Strong, from the Inventor, Ap./90.” The This scarce early issue of the Stamp Case appears to have recipient, Thomas Banks Strong (1861–1944), was a been distributed by Dodgson for presentation around student, teacher, and Dean of Christ Church, Oxford two months before its formal publication in a pink (1901–20), who later became bishop of Ripon and Ox- printed envelope with Eight or Nine Wise Words. With the ford successively. required issue points: no imprint above the Cheshire Cat on the outer sleeve, and the space below reading It is accompanied by two autograph letters from “Price One Shilling.” Bishop Strong. The first dated 5 June 1921, and signed “Thomas Ripon”, presents this copy as a gift to Miss Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 223. E. Bartlett, the youngest daughter of a friend: “It oc- £5,250 [108948]

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Presentation to Bessie Slatter 61 CARROLL, Lewis. Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter Writing. Oxford: Emberlin and Son, 1890 Duodecimo. Original cream wrappers, title to front cover black. Housed in a custom red linen chemise and red quar- ter morocco and cloth slipcase. Small chip to foot of front cover, small tear to foot of spine, some foxing to covers and contents. first edition. presentation copy, inscribed by the author to “Bessie Slatter from the Author. July 10 1890.” John Slatter (1818–1899), curate of Sandford- on-Thames, vicar of Streatley, and rector of Whitch- urch, his wife, mother, and daughter Elizabeth (“Bes- sie”) were all close friends of the author, who visited and photographed them (Letters, Cohen ed., I:46, n. 4). Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 223. £1,250 [108923]

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The author’s annotated proof copy of the second edition, with his holograph corrections 62 CARROLL, Lewis. Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing. Oxford: Emberlin and Son, 1890

Duodecimo (112 x 83 mm). Bound in near-contemporary green Otherwise, you will have to tear it open again, to insert morocco, front cover lettered in gilt, rules to covers blinds- something you had forgotten to say.” tamped, all edges gilt. Spine refurbished, a little rubbing to edge, some spotting to endleaves. An exceptional copy. Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 223. charles dodgson’s annotated proof copy of £9,750 [108854] the second edition, featuring his correc- tions in manuscript. The title-page is inscribed by Dodgson in his customary violet ink, noting that the copy was corrected on “July 9, 1890. Please send fresh proof to no. 7 Lushington Road, Eastbourne.” Dodgson’s inked corrections throughout tend towards greater concision, though he inserted an extra rule in the chapter on “How to go on with a Letter”: “Do not fasten up the envelope till post-time is close at hand.

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First combined edition 63 CARROLL, Lewis. Syzygies and Lanrick. A Word Puzzle and a Game for Two Players. London: (Richard Clay and Sons, Limited for) “The Lady”, 1893

Octavo, pp. 30. Original pale grey printed wrappers, title Dodgson at Auction 1893–1999 records only the author’s to front cover black. Housed in a custom black cloth velvet- own copy selling at auction (George Williamson sale, lined solander box. A fine copy. Anderson, 30 January 1908, lot 214 and again in the El- first combined edition, published in an edition of dridge R. Johnson sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 3 April 250 copies. Syzgies was first published, and reprinted 1946, lot 61). separately, in 1891; Lanrick was first published in De- Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 244. cember 1880 in the Monthly Packet; this is the fourth and final edition of the rules for the game. Scarce. £3,000 [108924]

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Inscribed to May Miller, “a very charming companion” befriended at Eastbourne 64 (DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.) YONGE, Charlotte Mary. The Girl’s Little Book. London: Skeffington, 1893

Small octavo. Original pictorial blue cloth, blocked red, gust 1893 and dining with her on 7 October (cf. Letters green and white to the front cover, patterned endpapers. pp. 983–4 and 982). Housed in a custom blue velvet-lined solander box. Spine slightly faded, spine ends and tips rubbed, a little spotting to This is the third edition of Yonge’s book, published outer leaves. An excellent copy. the same year as the first. Dodgson first met the pro- third edition, presentation copy from dodg- lific author Charlotte Yonge (1823–1901) on 3 May 1866; son, inscribed by him on the verso of the front free the following day he took two photographs of her in endpaper, “Marion Miller from C. L. Dodgson. Oct. 25, his studio. In the 1880s he contributed the whole of 1893.” Dodgson maintained a lifelong correspondence A Tangled Tale to her monthly magazine, The Monthly with Marion Louisa “May” Miller (1868–1946), whom Packet, and they remained friends and correspondents he first befriended with her sister Edith at Eastbourne throughout his life. Ironically, The Girl’s Little Book is ex- in 1881, and subsequently met there again for at least actly the kind of evangelical, moralistic work for chil- five consecutive summers. Dodgson described her as dren that the Alice books effortlessly eclipsed. “a very charming companion” (Letters p. 443n), and re- £1,500 [108926] cords an eventful outing with May to Brighton in Au-

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Inscribed to Dolly Blakemore, a child who grew to be a lifelong friend 65 CARROLL, Lewis. Symbolic Logic. Part I Elementary. London: Macmillan and Co., and New York, 1896

Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to front cover black. into an acquaintance that merely consists of a bow With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, boards gently bowed; an and a smile when we meet! ... I hope we may continue excellent copy in the jacket with some short closed tears to equally good friends during the years – few or many – extremities. that I have still before me.” A year later, he teasingly first edition. presentation copy, inscribed wrote to her: “when we have reached the exact mo- by the author on the half-title, “Edith Blakemore ment when you are beginning to give me up finally, with the Author’s affectionate regards. Feb. 22, 1896.” as a hopeless correspondent and a useless friend … Dodgson first made the acquaintance of Edith Rose [I shall] write you just one more letter, so as to wind (“Dolly”) Blakemore (1872–1947) while staying for his up the works of friendship (please observe this quite annual holiday at Eastbourne in the summer of 1877. original simile – treating friendship as a clock! You He noted in his diary on 2 August that “this evening, see it needs the joining of two hands: and though on the pier, I have made friends with quite the bright- things are sometimes at sixes and sevens, yet they al- est child, and nearly the prettiest, I have yet seen here.” ways come round at last) and set it going again.” Dodgson, who estimated that he had known some The first edition was published in February 1896 in an “200 or 300 children”, noted in a letter written on edition of 500 copies only, of which 100 were reserved 31 March 1890 that Edith was “rather the exception for authorial presentation. Three further editions were among the hundred or so child-friends who have published by Christmas the same year. brightened my life. Usually the child becomes so Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 270; Cohen, Lewis Carroll: A Biogra- entirely a different being as she grows into a woman phy, 1995, p. 469. that our friendship has to change too: and that it usu- ally does by sliding down, from a loving intimacy, £5,000 [108930]

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Dodgson’s cousin’s “tale for tiny boys” Dodgson’s own (the only recorded) copy of the privately printed issue, together with a presentation copy of the published edition, expanded at his suggestion and with his new introduction 66 (CARROLL, Lewis, intro.) WILCOX, E[lizabeth]. G[eorgina]. The Lost Plum-Cake. A Tale for Tiny Boys. With nine illustrations by E. L. Shute. Oxford: Horace Hart “Printed for private Circulation” 1896 & London: (Horace Hart, Oxford, for) Macmillan and Co., 1896 & 1897

2 works, octavo. Original red textured paper boards, titles to tion copy of the first trade edition inscribed front covers gilt, watered silk pastedowns. Housed in cus- by him and an autograph letter signed. The tom red linen chemises and a red velvet-lined solander box. trade edition is inscribed by Dodgson: “For Dorothy Illustrations after E. L. Shute. Spine expertly repaired, lightly from Lewis Carroll. Christmas 1897,” together with rubbed and soiled. an accompanying autograph letter signed from Lew- dodgson’s own copy of the rare privately is Carroll to six-year-old Dorothy Nutcombe Gould, printed issue with his manuscript monogram, Christ Church, 23 December 1897 (1 page, duodecimo): together with a pre-publication presenta-

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“My dear Dorothy, here’s a lot more plum-cake for you. Mrs Allen was Dodgson’s cousin. He had taken interest I hope you won’t make yourself ill with it.” in the book, giving advice and suggesting incidents for its expansion for commercial publication. He recruited Dorothy Nutcombe Gould (b. 1891) was the daughter the illustrator and cover designer and convinced Mac- of the actor James Nutcombe Gould, whom Dodgson millan to publish the book on condition that he write a had seen as Orlando in a production of As You Like It preface. The story is composed in words of no more than (with his friends Violet and Irene Barnes) in 1888. four letters each. The privately printed copy is the only However, he was only introduced to Nutcombe Gould one known: there is no copy in the British Library, in the and three of his daughters in October 1895, and met British Union Catalogue, nor the Library of Congress. Dorothy in December of that year. On the day that he sent this letter and book (the last to be published in his Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 285 (trade edition, noting but not lifetime), Dodgson left for Guildford to spend Christ- listing separately the privately-published edition). mas with his family, where he was taken ill and died on £12,500 [108927] 14 January 1898.

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His last work 67 CARROLL, Lewis. Three Sunsets and Other Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1898

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front cover the great cost of production) has, I fear, put them out gilt, vignette to front cover gilt, all edges gilt. Frontispiece of the reach of most of my readers.” Three Sunsets was with tissue-guard and 11 illustrations by E. Gertrude Thom- priced 4s. It was issued in February 1898, the month af- son. Spine faded to brown, covers a little sunned, tips slight- ter Dodgson’s death. The preface, dated January 1898, ly worn. An excellent copy. is perhaps the last thing he wrote. first edition. A collection of poetry, including por- Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 286. tions of Phantasmagoria (1869) and two poems from Syl- vie and Bruno, which, the author notes in the introduc- £450 [108932] tion, are “books whose high price (made necessary by

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Rare privately printed account of Dodgson’s European tour 68 DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge. Tour in 1867. From the original manuscript in the collection of M. L. Parrish, Esq., Pine Valley, New Jersey. Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1928

Octavo. Original red leather, titles to spine and front cover and Moscow, and returned through Warsaw, Breslau, gilt, single rule gilt to covers, top edge gilt. Housed in a red Dresden and Paris. linen chemise and red quarter calf and cloth slipcase. A few faint marks to covers, a little toning to endpapers; an excel- Pencilled to the front free endpaper of this copy is lent, fresh copy. “Dodgson, 8 Lillington Rd, Leamington Spa”, and be- first edition, limited issue. One of 66 copies low are the pencilled initials “G.M.D., 1961”. This copy printed from the original manuscript, a diary of Dodg- was possibly from the library of Dodgson’s nieces Vio- son’s European tour with Canon Liddon in the summer let and Mennella, who moved to Leamington Spa dur- of 1867, written in two notebooks. Dodgson and Lid- ing the Second World War. don travelled to Russia via Berlin, Brussels, Cologne Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 299. and Königsberg, where they visited Saint Petersburg £2,000 [108864]

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Written for the private amusement of his family 69 CARROLL, Lewis. The Rectory Umbrella & Mischmasch. London: Cassell and Company, 1932

Octavo. Original blue cloth, title to spine gilt, front cover let- wrote and illustrated in manuscript for his family be- tered and decorated in light blue, top edge blue. With the dust tween 1855 and 1862. jacket. Illustrations to text in black and white. A little rubbing to board edges; an excellent, fresh copy in the jacket with Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 308. toned spine and and some creases and nicks to extremities. £150 [108936] first edition, containing the text of the seventh and eighth of Dodgson’s domestic magazines, which he

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Albany, Duchess of 23 Lanrick: A Game for Two Players 43, 63 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; French Leopold, Prince 23 translation 10, 11; Italian translation 12, 13; Russian Liddell, Alice 4, 23, 29 translation 14 Liddell, Rhoda 4 Alice’s Adventures Under Ground 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 Liddell, Violet 2 Aventures d’Alice au pays des merveilles 10, 11 Lost Plum-Cake, The 66 Avventure d’Alice nel paese delle meraviglie, Le 12, 13 Martin, Georgina 20 Badcock, Elizabeth (“Bessie”) 54 Miller, Edith 7, 64 Barrett, Dorothea (“Dollie”) 39 Miller, Marion Louisa (“May”) 7, 64 Bartlett, E. 60 Mischmasch 44, 69 Blakemore, Edith 65 Nabokov, Vladimir 14 Bowman, Isa 21, 46 New Belfry of Christ Church, Oxford, The 36 “Bruno’s Revenge” 56 Paine, Adelaide (“Ada”) 32 Burnett, Mary 16 Pollock, Joanna de Morlot 47 Burton, Mabel Amy 5, 51 Rectory Umbrella, The 69 Christmas Greetings ( from a Fairy to a Child) 20, 50 Rhyme? And Reason? 47, 48, 49 Collingwood, Mary Charlotte 6, 39 Riccardi Press 9 Clarke, Henry Savile 20 Rix, Charlotte (“Lottie”) Jane 59 Crane, Beatrice 38 Rolleston, George 35 Discovery Expedition 8 Sandford, Alice 37 Dodgson, Mennella 68 Sangorski & Sutcliffe 2, 35 Dodgson, Violet 68 Scrivener, Jessie Josephine 18 Doublets: A Word Puzzle 42 Shute, E. L. 66 Drury, Mary See Fuller, Mary “Minnie” Francis Standen, Maud 40 Dutton, E. P. 2, 35 Strong, Thomas Banks 60 Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves Alice, An 5, 20, 38 Sylvie and Bruno 46n, 56, 57, 58 Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing 61, 62 Sylvie and Bruno Concluded 57, 58, 22n Falle, Albina (“Lily”) 24 Symbolic Logic 65 Freiligrath-Kroeker, Kate 15 Syzygies 63 Frost, Arthur B. 45, 51, 52 Tangled Tale, A 51, 52 Fuller, Mary “Minnie” Francis 19 Tenniel, John 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, Furniss, Harry 57, 58, 59 21, 22, 45 Game of Logic, The 53, 54, 55 Tennyson, Lord Alfred 16, 34 Girl’s Little Book, The 64 Thomson, Gertrude E. 30, 31, 32, 67 Goodacre, Selwyn 22, 29, 39 Three Sunsets and Other Poems 67 Gould, Dorothy Nutcombe 66 Through the Looking-Glass 5, 7, 8, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22 Hargreaves, Alice See Liddell, Alice. Tour in 1867 68 Hatfield House 23, 37, 46 Welford, Nellie 6 See also Collingwood, Charlotte. Holiday, Henry 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 45 Wilcox, Elizabeth Georgina 66 Hunting of the Snark, The 4n, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 Wilcox, May 57 Index to “In Memoriam” 34 Wolmer, Lady Maud 46 Jeune, Ceroline Margaret Noël 21 Wonderland Postage Stamp Case, The 60 Koettlitz, Reginald 8 Wyper, Emily (“Emmie”) 48 Langbridge, Violet 26 Yonge, Charlotte Mary 64 Peter Harrington london

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