Lot 49
  • 49

Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll")

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Phantasmagoria and other poems. London: Macmillan, 1869.
  • Paper, ink, leather
8vo (170 x 117 mm). Publisher's advert slip for Alice tipped in. Front hinge tender, rear starting. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth; spine ends and joints rubbed.

Provenance

Blairhame (bookplate); Mrs. J. Insley Blair (sale, Sotheby's New York, 3 December 2004, lot 143)

Literature

Williams 18; Avery 79

Catalogue Note

first edition, first issue, presentation copy to the author's cousin, the poet Menella Bute Smedley.  "Miss M. B. Smedley with author's affectionate regards Jan 1869."