The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson)

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Rebound in green cloth, old board cloth laid down, gilt titles & tooling. No spine title. Internally, half title, publishers marque to verso, portrait frontis (signature stamped), title, [9], (ix-xx), [2], 3-449 pp, [12] adverts, numerous B&W illustrating including many full page portraits, fep loose, t.e.g., remainder uncut, publishers printed endpapers, original spine cloth tipped to fpd. (199*139 mm) (Madan p257 [501][286a. p204). Collingwood was Carroll's nephew, publishing two books regarding his uncle- this, and The Lewis Carroll Picture Book. Provenance: From the personal library of Lillian Stokes Gillespie (1869-1915). An independently wealthy socialite from the Stokes family of New York, a line of enormously successful financiers and merchants.