Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll")

Bifolium (9 x 7 1/4 in.; 228 x 184 mm).  Light horizontal fold.

Avery 159; not in NUC

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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First edition. One of 100 copies printed, but few survive. A Great Lewis Carroll rarity. This copy with two interesting annotations, most likely in Dodgson's hand, on p. 3: the man "passing rich with forty pounds a year" is identified as "Jowett"; and for "some method to evaluate his pie" the annotation reads "See Mr.[?] Dodgson's 'Evaluation of pi.'"