Lewis Carroll's Library - 2

In June 2000 Bloomsbury Auctions sold the Denis Crutch collection of Lewis Carroll. Denis was a founder member of the Lewis Carroll Society and co-editor of the Lewis Carroll Handbook and had a large and important collection of original items. I bought a second book from Carroll’s library, again with a very good provenance. Thomas Hood’s Petsetilla’s Posy / A Fairy Tale for Young and Old, with elaborate green cloth gilt, original grey endpapers and 50 engravings by the Dalziel Brothers had been published in 1870 by Routledge. It appeared for sale in Blackwell’s catalogue 433 in 1938 with a description of the intertwined CLD monogram in purple ink and had eventually found its’ way into the Crutch collection and then into mine. It would have been prized by Carroll for its whimsical tales and illustrations, engraved by the Dalziels , who of course engraved Tenniel’s illustrations for the Alice books.