The Lewis Carroll Picture Book. [A selection from the unpublished writings and drawings [.] together with reprints from scarce and unacknowledged work.] [Collins' Wide-World Library series.]

frontispiece and numerous plates, pp. 271 [1], foolscap 8vo, original red cloth, series design stamped in blind to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt and faded with a touch of wear at tips, slight lean to spine, a few marks to edges of cloth, With a gift inscription to the flyleaf, linking this copy to the Bloomsbury Group: 'Saxon, from Dad, Christmas Day 1913'. The recipient was Saxon Sydney-Turner, a civil servant who had been a Cambridge Apostle, and there a friend of Clive Bell, Lytton Strachey, and Leonard Woolf. Beneath the gift inscription is the later ownership inscription of Michael Bagenal, the son of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles) - she was a friend of Carrington from the Slade, with whom Sydney-Turner had a long relationship. This volume, originally published in 1899, was edited by Dodgson's nephew, who was also his first biographer. 'An interesting volume, belying the limitations of its chief title. Besides twenty-four illustrations it contains reprints and new matter which make it an indispensable companion of the 'Life and Letters'' (Williams). (Williams et al.[Crutch] 287).…