Lewis Carroll: 125 Photographic Reproductions

The notoriously fragile deluxe issue in flexible gilt stamped burgundy leather ; top edge gilt, with silk marker; worn and scuffed at edges; spine unevenly repaired with minor loss at head, and leaning slightly to left. Endpapers lightly browned at margins from binder's glue leaching through; upper blank margin of p. First edition, [later issue? Original decoratively printed grey wrappers with burgundy buckram spine.

Save for a small snag at to head of spine, a fine, bright copy of the wrapper issue not often found in collector's condition. There is another, perhaps later, issue in stiff grey printed wrappers. This one a little age-toned, with burgundy buckram spine slightly worn at head. Contents clean and tight. A Selection from the Letters of Lewis Carroll.. University of Texas Press, Nicely produced as one would expect on excellent quality paper. Original apple-green cloth, covers and gilt bright and sharp; spine a little darkened and leaning slightly.

Top edge brown, others yellow. Bookplate; inner hinges cracked, but strong; contents excellent. Larger format; original bluish-grey pictorial Alice and Humpty-Dumpty cloth. The Wasp in a Wig. Edition limited to five hundred copies. The Wasp in a Wig: First American Trade Edition. Fine copy in original brick-red boards and dust jacket. Printed in blue and black on white background. John Tenniel , "Punch, October 26, Large format musical score in original grey wrappers, decorated Alice characters in red, white and green ; edges a little chipped and spine lacking small piece at tail; corners a little creased; light age toning.

Ink name and contemporary date at top corner of title-page, contents otherwise very clean and tight. Unusual in such fine condition. Tenniel-style illustrations by Anne Scarisbrick. Original pictorial gilt Tweedle-twin holding open navigation chart pale blue cloth , gilt lettered on spine. Ownership label on front end-paper, with faint traces of erased red pencilled price; contents fine. Yellow pictorial price-clipped dust jacket lightly soiled. Parodies of the Works of English and American Authors. Works About E Blake, Kathleen. Play, Games, and Sport: The Literary works of Lewis Carroll.

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Cornell University Press, Snark, A Tangled Tale, and Sylvie and Bruno" cf. It is utterly false in every particular: Strong comments in a Times article, "It would have been clean contrary to all his practice to identify [the] author of Alice with the author of his mathematical works". The title page of the first edition erroneously gives "" as the date of publication.

His father's death in plunged him into a depression that lasted some years. In , Dodgson produced his next great work, The Hunting of the Snark , a fantastical "nonsense" poem exploring the adventures of a bizarre crew of nine tradesmen and one beaver, who set off to find the snark. It received largely mixed reviews from Carroll's contemporary reviewers, [54] but was enormously popular with the public, having been reprinted seventeen times between and , [55] and has seen various adaptations into musicals, opera, theatre, plays and music.

In , 30 years after publication of his masterpieces, Carroll attempted a comeback, producing a two-volume tale of the fairy siblings Sylvie and Bruno. Carroll entwines two plots set in two alternative worlds, one set in rural England and the other in the fairytale kingdoms of Elfland, Outland, and others. The fairytale world satirizes English society, and more specifically the world of academia. Sylvie and Bruno came out in two volumes and is considered a lesser work, although it has remained in print for over a century. In , Dodgson took up the new art form of photography under the influence first of his uncle Skeffington Lutwidge , and later of his Oxford friend Reginald Southey.

By the time that Dodgson abruptly ceased photography , over 24 years , he had established his own studio on the roof of Tom Quad , created around 3, images, and was an amateur master of the medium, though fewer than 1, images have survived time and deliberate destruction. He stopped taking photographs because keeping his studio working was too time-consuming. This was a cloth-backed folder with twelve slots, two marked for inserting the most commonly used penny stamp, and one each for the other current denominations up to one shilling. The folder was then put into a slipcase decorated with a picture of Alice on the front and the Cheshire Cat on the back.

It intended to organize stamps wherever one stored their writing utensils; Carroll expressly notes in Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing it is not intended to be carried in a pocket or purse, as the most common individual stamps could easily be carried on their own. The pack included a copy of a pamphletted version of this lecture.

Another invention was a writing tablet called the nyctograph that allowed note-taking in the dark, thus eliminating the need to get out of bed and strike a light when one woke with an idea. The device consisted of a gridded card with sixteen squares and system of symbols representing an alphabet of Dodgson's design, using letter shapes similar to the Graffiti writing system on a Palm device.

He also devised a number of games, including an early version of what today is known as Scrabble. He appears to have invented — or at least certainly popularized — the "doublet" see word ladder , a form of brain-teaser that is still popular today, changing one word into another by altering one letter at a time, each successive change always resulting in a genuine word. Other items include a rule for finding the day of the week for any date; a means for justifying right margins on a typewriter; a steering device for a velociam a type of tricycle ; new systems of parliamentary representation; [66] more fair elimination rules for tennis tournaments; a new sort of postal money order; rules for reckoning postage; rules for a win in betting; rules for dividing a number by various divisors; a cardboard scale for the Senior Common Room at Christ Church which, held next to a glass, ensured the right amount of liqueur for the price paid; a double-sided adhesive strip to fasten envelopes or mount things in books; a device for helping a bedridden invalid to read from a book placed sideways; and at least two ciphers for cryptography.

Within the academic discipline of mathematics, Dodgson worked primarily in the fields of geometry , linear and matrix algebra , mathematical logic , and recreational mathematics , producing nearly a dozen books under his real name. Dodgson also developed new ideas in linear algebra e. His occupation as Mathematical Lecturer at Christ Church gave him some financial security.

His mathematical work attracted renewed interest in the late 20th century. Martin Gardner's book on logic machines and diagrams and William Warren Bartley's posthumous publication of the second part of Carroll's symbolic logic book have sparked a reevaluation of Carroll's contributions to symbolic logic. The algorithm known as Dodgson condensation is closely related to the Schur complement and the Desnanot-Jacobi identity. The discovery in the s of additional ciphers that Carroll had constructed, in addition to his "Memoria Technica", showed that he had employed sophisticated mathematical ideas in their creation.

Dodgson wrote and received as many as 98, letters, according to a special letter register which he devised. He documented his advice about how to write more satisfying letters in a missive entitled "Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing". Dodgson's existence remained little changed over the last twenty years of his life, despite his growing wealth and fame. He continued to teach at Christ Church until and remained in residence there until his death. The two volumes of his last novel, Sylvie and Bruno , were published in and , but the intricacy of this work was apparently not appreciated by contemporary readers; it achieved nothing like the success of the Alice books, with disappointing reviews and sales of only 13, copies.

The only known occasion on which he travelled abroad was a trip to Russia in as an ecclesiastic, together with the Reverend Henry Liddon. He recounts the travel in his "Russian Journal", which was first commercially published in He died of pneumonia following influenza on 14 January at his sisters' home, "The Chestnuts", in Guildford. He was two weeks away from turning 66 years old. His funeral was held at the nearby St Mary's Church.

Some late twentieth-century biographers have suggested that Dodgson's interest in children had an erotic element, including Morton N. Cohen in his Lewis Carroll: Cohen, in particular, speculates that Dodgson's "sexual energies sought unconventional outlets", and further writes:. We cannot know to what extent sexual urges lay behind Charles's preference for drawing and photographing children in the nude.

He contended the preference was entirely aesthetic. He probably felt more than he dared acknowledge, even to himself. Cohen goes on to note that Dodgson "apparently convinced many of his friends that his attachment to the nude female child form was free of any eroticism ", but adds that "later generations look beneath the surface" p.

He argues that Dodgson may have wanted to marry the year-old Alice Liddell, and that this was the cause of the unexplained "break" with the family in June , [26] an event for which other explanations are offered. Biographers Derek Hudson and Roger Lancelyn Green stop short of identifying Dodgson as a paedophile Green also edited Dodgson's diaries and papers , but they concur that he had a passion for small female children and next to no interest in the adult world.

Catherine Robson refers to Carroll as "the Victorian era's most famous or infamous girl lover". Several other writers and scholars have challenged the evidential basis for Cohen's and others' views about Dodgson's sexual interests. Lebailly has endeavoured to set Dodgson's child photography within the "Victorian Child Cult", which perceived child nudity as essentially an expression of innocence.

Lebailly claims that studies of child nudes were mainstream and fashionable in Dodgson's time, and that most photographers made them as a matter of course, including Oscar Gustave Rejlander and Julia Margaret Cameron. Lebailly continues that child nudes even appeared on Victorian Christmas cards , implying a very different social and aesthetic assessment of such material.

Lebailly concludes that it has been an error of Dodgson's biographers to view his child-photography with 20th- or 21st-century eyes, and to have presented it as some form of personal idiosyncrasy, when it was in fact a response to a prevalent aesthetic and philosophical movement of the time. Karoline Leach 's reappraisal of Dodgson focused in particular on his controversial sexuality. She argues that the allegations of paedophilia rose initially from a misunderstanding of Victorian morals, as well as the mistaken idea — fostered by Dodgson's various biographers — that he had no interest in adult women.

She termed the traditional image of Dodgson "the Carroll Myth". She drew attention to the large amounts of evidence in his diaries and letters that he was also keenly interested in adult women, married and single, and enjoyed several relationships with them that would have been considered scandalous by the social standards of his time. She also pointed to the fact that many of those whom he described as "child-friends" were girls in their late teens and even twenties. Similarly, Leach points to a biography by Langford Reed as the source of the dubious claim that many of Carroll's female friendships ended when the girls reached the age of In addition to the biographical works that have discussed Dodgson's sexuality, there are modern artistic interpretations of his life and work that do so as well — in particular, Dennis Potter in his play Alice and his screenplay for the motion picture Dreamchild , and Robert Wilson in his film Alice.

Dodgson had been groomed for the ordained ministry in the Church of England from a very early age and was expected to be ordained within four years of obtaining his master's degree, as a condition of his residency at Christ Church. He delayed the process for some time but was eventually ordained as a deacon on 22 December But when the time came a year later to be ordained as a priest, Dodgson appealed to the dean for permission not to proceed.

This was against college rules and, initially, Dean Liddell told him that he would have to consult the college ruling body, which would almost certainly have resulted in his being expelled. For unknown reasons, Liddell changed his mind overnight and permitted Dodgson to remain at the college in defiance of the rules. There is currently no conclusive evidence about why Dodgson rejected the priesthood. Some have suggested that his stammer made him reluctant to take the step, because he was afraid of having to preach.

But Dodgson did indeed preach in later life, even though not in priest's orders, so it seems unlikely that his impediment was a major factor affecting his choice. He was interested in minority forms of Christianity he was an admirer of F. Maurice and "alternative" religions theosophy. At least four complete volumes and around seven pages of text are missing from Dodgson's 13 diaries.

Most scholars assume that the diary material was removed by family members in the interests of preserving the family name, but this has not been proven. This was also the period of time when he composed his extensive love poetry, leading to speculation that the poems may have been autobiographical. Many theories have been put forward to explain the missing material. A popular explanation for one missing page 27 June is that it might have been torn out to conceal a proposal of marriage on that day by Dodgson to the year-old Alice Liddell. However, there has never been any evidence to suggest that this was so, and a paper offers some evidence to the contrary which was discovered by Karoline Leach in the Dodgson family archive in This paper is known as the "cut pages in diary document", and was compiled by various members of Carroll's family after his death.

Part of it may have been written at the time when the pages were destroyed, though this is unclear. The document offers a brief summary of two diary pages that are missing, including the one for 27 June The summary for this page states that Mrs. Liddell told Dodgson that there was gossip circulating about him and the Liddell family's governess , as well as about his relationship with "Ina", presumably Alice's older sister Lorina Liddell.

The "break" with the Liddell family that occurred soon after was presumably in response to this gossip. Sign In Register Help Cart. Book lists Spooooky Books for Brave Children. The classic tale of literary nonsense takes the reader on an exploration of logic and absurdities. The Alice books — sometimes combined or referred to with the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland — have been translated into at least 97 languages with over a hundred different editions.

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Very good, with some toning and dimming to the spine, discreet repairs to the spine ends, light soiling to the boards, corners lightly rubbed and bumped, spine cracked and holding inside the front cover, Mission ownership stamp the front pastedown, one or two faint spots to the otherwise very clean pages. A very square and attractive copy, very scarce in the original cloth.

Housed in a custom folding box. The true first issue of Alice was published by Macmillan in London in a print run of 2, copies, but was quickly suppressed because neither author nor artist approved of the quality of the reproductive illustrations. Macmillan sold its remaining pages to Appleton in New York, who bound this second issue with a cancel title page.

Aside from the new title, the Appleton Alice agree with all textual issues of the Alice, including the slight variants on page [5] and [6], which neither indicate collecting priority nor earlier printing. Similarly, the slightly different Appleton title pages are the result of the book being "printed in pairs from two nominally identical settings of type.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote the nonsensical story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll for Alice Liddell, who was a frequent subject of Dodgson's revolutionary portrait photography. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland includes a black and white frontispiece along with forty-two in-text illustrations by John Tenniel, Dodgson's frequent artist collaborator.. First British edition after the suppressed edition. Small octavo pgs. With 42 illusts by John Tenniel.

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Contemporary full red moracco binding. Covers lightly gilt decorated double gold lines along four edges. Back strip with five raised bands and gold decorations. Book is in a dark red cloth covered slip case which was made for the book and which is in fine condition. Fine condition except for some light rubbing of outer hinges which is difficult to see.

This is a very nice copy. Grunewald - Bookdealer Published: Appleton and Co, First edition, second issue. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. Carroll's enduring tale of a child's dreamworld was first issued in by Macmillan and Company of London, but Carroll and Tenniel were unhappy with the print quality of the illustrations and canceled the issue, insisting that the book be reprinted.

Few copies of that first issue were ever released; fewer still are known to exist today. Many of the sheets had yet to be bound when Carroll suppressed the edition, and a number of these unbound sheets had been sold to Carroll's American publisher, Appleton, who added its own title page. Thus, the first American edition is comprised of the sheets from the suppressed London edition. Subsequently, Macmillan issued its second edition of Alice with re-set type and reprinted illustrations.

Alice was an immediate sensation. Copies of the book were avidly read by their young owners and tend to show some wear as a result. Spine richly gilt in six compartments, with leather labels in two compartments, lettered in gilt. Original endpapers and red cloth binding bound-in following the text.

Rear board faintly scuffed, spine lightly rubbed in spots. Pages show occasional light finger smudges and a few professionally repaired marginal tears; very faint owner's inscription. Early rebinding, halfbound red leather with gilt decorations to spine, hubbed spine, leather labels in two compartments, marbled paper boards, marbled endpages, red textblock edges speckled in black. Rebound in Boston by Krumin. These are the sheets from the London edition with the American title page. Occasional mild spots and stains to the pages, while the binding is in excellent condition, a trifle bowed, very tight and sound.

First edition to be regularly published, though technically the second edition.

The exceedingly rare first edition was suppressed, and only a little over 20 copies are extant. This copy finely bound in full red leather stamped in gilt and blind on front and back covers, each of which features an inset panel with an image after Tenniel's stamped in black-foil on cream-color leather and colored by hand.

Spine features five raised bands, gilt center stamps and gilt-lettered onlaid green leather labels. Housed in red linen clamshell case lined in red velvet with rounded red leather spine mimicking the book's in design. Frontis tissue darkened, scattered light foxing throughout; otherwise text block is very good condition.

Binding and clamshell case are fine. First Edition; American issue; consisting of the sheets of the suppressed London edition with an American title page. The edition was recalled and only a small number of copies have survived. Macmillan reprinted the book and issued it in Rebacked at an early date, with the original spine laid down; wear and staining; only a good copy. Lucy from the Author, Nov. She helped him in making advertisements regarding spoiled copies of Looking-Glass, an edition he largely gave away, and also assisted him in preparing presentation copies of Sylvie and Bruno Concluded for shipment.

Original cloth, slightly frayed, front hinge weak, overall, very good or a little better in a custom cloth clamshell box. James Pepper Rare Books, Inc. Limited Editions Club, Both volumes signed by Alice Hargreaves. One volume bound in full red morocco, the other in blue calf, decorated in gilt with gilt lettering. Limited to copies, one being no. Clean and unworn copies in slightly age-toned slipcases. With illustrations by John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. First edition, first issue with inverted "s" on contents page.. Gilt leather book label on pastedown.

Old ink name and address on verso of front free endpapar; "1st edition" in ink on half-title; old tiny bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown; hinges slightly cracked but intact; a very good copy in original cloth.. With Forty-two Illustrations by John Tenniel.. Marks Rare Books Published: Old ink name and address on verso of front free endpapar; "1st edition" in ink Edition: First edition, first issue with inverted "s" on conten.

Original green gilt pictorial cloth with Gryphon and Mock-Turtle to front board. Signed by Rackham with an original pen and ink drawing of a winged Gryphon and dated A very good copy with some rubbing and light wear to the extremities. The deluxe limited issue of Rackham's "Alice" was not signed by Rackham because he was traveling at the time of the book's publication.

Auction: Lewis Carroll photograph of Aubrey de Vere () - British photographic history

Housed in a gilt-decorated custom brown half-morocco fleece-lined folding box. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote the nonsensical "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll for one of his favorite child friends, Alice Liddell, who was also a frequent subject of Dodgson's portrait photography. Arthur Rackham was a prolific British artist and illustrator, best known for his deluxe editions of popular children's books. Artistically inclined since childhood, Rackham started out illustrating for newspapers, but it was not until he began drawing for children's literature that he received critical acclaim.

In response to his burgeoning fame, Rackham's publisher, William Heinemann, began producing deluxe and trade editions of his illustrated works, the first being Rip Van Winkle in Deluxe editions were produced in a limited edition of numbered copies ranging in quantity from - 2, , bound in vellum bindings, printed on handmade paper, and signed by the illustrator. The trade editions were published concurrently in simple bindings, on thinner paper, and with fewer color plates. This publication strategy benefited both publisher and artist; Rackham produced about one book per year and would have an annual gallery exhibition showing his original artwork for his latest book.

The recipient of multiple awards for illustrations, Rackham was a diverse artist with a talent for both the fantastical and the intricacies of human nature, as demonstrated in his famous illustrations for Peter Pan.. Later printing Eighty-Fifth Thousand. Signed by Tenniel on the title page. Publisher's red cloth, with an illustration of Alice holding a pig to the front board, with an illustration of the Cheshire Cat to the rear panel, lettered in gilt, black coated endpapers. Very good, with some light toning to the spine, minor soiling to the boards, bright gilt, spine lightly starting inside the front cover, otherwise sturdy binding, bright and clean pages.

Overall, a tight and attractive copy, extremely scarce with Tenniel's signature. Housed in a custom slipcase with matching chemise. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland includes a black and white frontispiece along with forty-two in-text illustrations by John Tenniel, Dodgson's frequent artist collaborator, with whom he had a somewhat volatile relationship due to their mutual perfectionism. Indeed, the true first issue of Alice was published by Macmillan in London in a print run of 2, copies, but was quickly suppressed because neither author nor artist approved of the quality of the reproductive illustrations..

Through the Looking Glass, signed in the colophon Alice Hargreaves.