Edition: 1st UK Edition
Illustrated By: John Tenniel Edmund Evans
Published By: Macmillan And Co
This remarkable copy in extremely fresh condition signed by Lewis Carroll one of 100 copies presented to friends with a copy of the name recorded in a Lewis Carroll's notebook. Second overall edition 1st UK edition. This fabulous copy comes with four signed letters by Lewis Carroll, a brief transcript of each below. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans"--Title page verso Advertisements: p. [6]-[8] at end, with slip advertising "Sylvie and Bruno" A fascinating collection of four letters written by C.L. Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, and addressed to Mabel. Lewis Carroll first met Mabel Amy Burton on 16 August 1877. He noted in his diary "Went on the pier in the evening and made another fortunate acquaintance... my new friend is Mabel Amy Burton, of 53 Pentonville Road, Islington. She seems to be about 8... Mabel herself is entirely charming, and without an atom of shyness: I never became friends with a child so easily or so quickly". Though their friendship ended as Mabel grew, these examples of correspondence provide precious insight into both Carroll's relationships and, in the case of letter no. 4, of how his taste for nonsense and the absurd permeated his real life as well as his work. Revisiting letter no. 4, we’re gifted a particularly valuable passage: ‘What is your idea of smallness, I wonder? And how do you distinguish it from largeness? Do you call an elephant "smallâ€, for instance? And do you call this a "long letter? Of course, we are reminded of Alice's adventures and her bizarre physical changes. In the mid-fifties, English psychiatrist John Todd coined the term Alice in Wonderland syndrome to refer to certain hallucinations induced by migraines; sufferers would experience size-related hallucinations affecting both themselves and the objects around them. Since, many scholars have proposed that Carroll himself was plagued by these same illusions, consequently using them as a source of inspiration for his two Alice books. A fine example of this famous work, with such fabulous covers.
Book Condition: Fine
Author: Lewis Carroll
Binding: Hardback
Ref: 113342
Price £25000.00
