Saturday, 23 August 2014

A Dodgson Pamphlet on Voting

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Lewis Carroll wrote many works under his real name and this is one of his pamphlets on voting. He applied his mathematical expertise to sev...
Saturday, 9 August 2014

Bedtime Reading for Queen Victoria

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After Alice was published in 1865 Dodgson’s next work was a mathematical piece called “Condensation of Determinants” , a work important eno...
Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Wonderland and Looking Glass Quadrilles 1872

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These two rather beautiful items are, once again, very hard to find although, being essentially sheet music, one might think they would be ...
Sunday, 22 June 2014

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

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Dated 16 May 1873, Dodgson had copies of this pamphlet privately printed, his protest at the changes proposed to the narrowing and lowering...
Saturday, 14 June 2014

Bumblebee Bogo’s Budget Presentation Copy from Lewis Carroll

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In 1886 Dodgson helped a friend, William Webb Follett Synge in publishing a volume of children’s verse illustrated by another recent acquai...
Monday, 2 June 2014

Presentation Copy of Doublets

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Lewis Carroll presented a copy of Doublets inscribed to his child-friend Edith Miller. This book, a third edition, I bought at the Nicholas...
Saturday, 24 May 2014

Presented by the Author for the Use of Sick Children

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Lewis Carroll was a generous man and from time to time prepared copies of his books to be given away to hospitals for the use of sick child...