Dodgson’s Objections against proposed alterations in the Great Quadrangle of Christ Church, Oxford 1873

Dated 16 May 1873, Dodgson had copies of this pamphlet privately printed, his protest at the changes proposed to the narrowing and lowering of the terrace and the substitution of a grass slope for the existing stone wall. He had also objected to the new double entrance to the cathedral and to the new belfry in other now famous pamphlets. His protest against a grass slope may have helped as the low wall in the quadrangle is still there today.

The piece is large, printed over 4 pages, pgs 2-3 numbered, and described in WMGC 95. It came to me via a bookseller in Berkeley, California who had a number of rare Dodgson pamphlets for sale and he in turn had bought them from a New York collector of all sorts of books.

This pamphlet is ultra-rare because of the low original print number and the ephemeral nature .A few private collectors have a copy, as do some public collections.