A Dodgson Pamphlet on Voting

Lewis Carroll wrote many works under his real name and this is one of his pamphlets on voting. He applied his mathematical expertise to several other subjects, tennis and politics to name but two. This pamphlet is in very nice condition, with a deletion in Dodgson’s hand of a word in the last line of pg 5. The pamphlet is a first ( and only) edition printed in Oxford in 1874 by the University printers. It came in a group of Carroll pamphlets from the same source as the Objections/Quadrangle pamphlet shown earlier here. A thing a collector might see or be offered once in a lifetime.

Bedtime Reading for Queen Victoria

After Alice was published in 1865 Dodgson’s next work was a mathematical piece called “Condensation of Determinants” , a work important enough in scientific circles to be published in the Proceedings of The Royal Society in 1866. The piece shown here is an offprint from this journal in rare plain paper covers. The well known story that Queen Victoria, being impressed by Alice, requested that Dodgson sent her a copy of his next work, referred to the Determinants of 1867 but in fact this piece came out first. Imagine how thrilled she would have been with either!