DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing , with The Wonderland Stamp Case and envelope, Oxford: Emberlin and Son, 1890. 24° (103 x 78mm). Stamp case and cover illustrated in colour; printed envelope (worn). Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION of this 'small but excellent work, full of sound sense and humour' (WMGC p.170). The stamp case, invented in 1888, is the oldest of the three parts and a rare issue predates the pamphlet. In this group the stamp case is a second edition, and the envelope is a first edition. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 223. DODGSON, C.L. The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony, in Eight Fits . London: Macmillan, 1876. 8° (184 x 124 mm). 9 illustrations after Henry Holiday (Occasional light soiling.) Original pictorial buff-coloured cloth, blocked in black, spine lettered in black, edges gilt (lower joint broken, spine foot chipped, lower cover soiled). Provenance : H.G.B. Ellis (signature). FIRST EDITION. Dodgson's 'most magnificent literary creation after the Alice books' (Cohen Letters , p. 43). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 115. DODGSON, C.L. The Songs from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" . London: Weekes & Co., 1870. Oblong 8° (257 x 172mm). Original cream wrappers, front cover printed in gilt. (Wrappers soiled and lightly creased at fore-corners, gilt oxidised.) Red cloth clamshell case. FIRST EDITION. A number of variants are known, with no priority established by The Handbook . Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 78. (3)
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing , with The Wonderland Stamp Case and envelope, Oxford: Emberlin and Son, 1890. 24° (103 x 78mm). Stamp case and cover illustrated in colour; printed envelope (worn). Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION of this 'small but excellent work, full of sound sense and humour' (WMGC p.170). The stamp case, invented in 1888, is the oldest of the three parts and a rare issue predates the pamphlet. In this group the stamp case is a second edition, and the envelope is a first edition. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 223. DODGSON, C.L. The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony, in Eight Fits . London: Macmillan, 1876. 8° (184 x 124 mm). 9 illustrations after Henry Holiday (Occasional light soiling.) Original pictorial buff-coloured cloth, blocked in black, spine lettered in black, edges gilt (lower joint broken, spine foot chipped, lower cover soiled). Provenance : H.G.B. Ellis (signature). FIRST EDITION. Dodgson's 'most magnificent literary creation after the Alice books' (Cohen Letters , p. 43). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 115. DODGSON, C.L. The Songs from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" . London: Weekes & Co., 1870. Oblong 8° (257 x 172mm). Original cream wrappers, front cover printed in gilt. (Wrappers soiled and lightly creased at fore-corners, gilt oxidised.) Red cloth clamshell case. FIRST EDITION. A number of variants are known, with no priority established by The Handbook . Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 78. (3)
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