Lewis Carroll's Library - 4

This is Lewis Carroll’s personal copy of the famous autobiographical work Apologia by John Henry Newman. Published in 1865 – the same year as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Newman defends his views on Catholicism against the attack by Charles Kingsley. The provenance is detailed. It was sold in the 1898 sale of Dodgson’s library and emerged in a Hodgson’s auction 17 December 1936. Lot 21, acquired by the founder of the Osborn Collection at Yale, James Osborn. Osborn died in 1976 and this book passed to a friend of his, an Anglican priest named  Brainerd ( his bookplate is on the front pastedown) and into my collection in 2005.How interesting to see that Dodgson has started an annotation in his purple ink but spelt the word pamphlets incorrectly and had to start again on the title page.  [ Ref Lovett 1431 ]