Pseudonym Dodgson Charles Lutwidge (8 results)

[Children's illustrated] VINTAGE COPY, 'Seventy Fourth thousand' stated. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 192 [4]. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel. One leaf of advertisements at rear. Publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and gilt devices to boards, all edges gilt, dark navy endpapers. Contents clean with some gentle reading marks, covers show some soiling, large cup/saucer ring to rear, joints and spine ends expertly repaired. A very good, presentable copy. A copy of the 1865/66 children's classic, featuring Tenniel's original illustrations, in the original format.

Early edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original blue cloth boards with titles in gilt to the upper board, illustration and titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 12 full page colour plates and line drawings throughout the text by Mabel Lucie Attwell. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with a little wear to the spine tips and corners. The cloth with just a few light marks is otherwise bright and fresh. The contents, with an ink inscription to the blank front endpaper and mild foxing to the prelims and text block edge, are otherwise clean and bright. All of the colour plates are present as called for and in fine condition. Publisher's catalogue to the rear. An attractive example of this beautifully illustrated Alice in an uncommon cloth binding. Commonly seen in paper covered pictorial boards and cloth spine, there was also a deluxe issue in dark blue heavy beveled cloth boards illustrated and with titles in gilt to the upper board. This example appears to be an in-between state, the boards not beveled and without the illustration to the upper board, but here present on the spine. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

[Children's illustrated] VINTAGE COPY, 'Seventieth thousand' stated. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 192 [4]. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel. One leaf of advertisements at rear. Publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and gilt devices to boards, all edges gilt, dark navy endpapers. Gently toned, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Expert restoration and recolouring to spine; otherwise light wear to cloth. Very good. A copy of the 1865/66 children's classic, featuring Tenniel's original illustrations, in the original format.

First editions. Two volumes. Finely bound by Charles Elsden Gladstone in elaborately decorated full brown morocco, the spines with five raised bands and titles in gilt. Gilt decorated inner boards, marbled endpapers. Binder's initials stamped in gilt to the lower inner front board. All edges gilt. The publisher's cloth bound in as the front and rear pastedown of Through the Looking Glass. Illustrated with frontispieces and 90 illustrations across the two volumes by John Tenniel. The four page leaflet 'To All Child Readers of Alice In Wonderland', originally issued loosely laid in to first editions of Through the Looking Glass, has been retained and bound in. Some spotting and a couple of tiny closed tears to the margins of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, otherwise a fine set. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the first published edition, the second overall: the book was originally printed in Oxford at the Clarendon Press in June 1865, but was suppressed when Carroll heard that the book's illustrator was dissatisfied with the quality of the printing. He recalled the few pre-publication copies he had sent out to his friends and donated them to hospitals, where most perished. Only 23 of those original "1865 Alices" are now extant, mostly in institutional holdings, thus creating one of the most famous black tulips of book collecting. The book was entirely reset by Richard Clay for the present authorized Macmillan edition, the earliest edition that can be realistically obtained. Although dated 1866, the edition was in fact ready by November 1865, in time for the Christmas market, and was published in a print run of 4,000 copies. The copy of Through the Looking-Glass is the first edition; like its predecessor, it was published for the Christmas market and bears the following year's date in its imprint. It was actually published in December 1871, in an edition of 9,000 copies. Charles Elsden Gladstone (1855-1919), the creator of these exquisite bindings, had a long and distinguished naval career, during which he rose through the ranks from Midshipman to Commander. Service papers record his expertise in advanced submarine weaponry and photography. That he was reportedly engaged in covert intelligence gathering recently prompted P. J. M. Marks, the British Library's Curator of Western Bookbindings, to refer to Gladstone as "a bookbinding James Bond", 007 another ex-Navy Commander with access to cutting edge technology and working undercover. Gladstone's bookbinding activities his overcover work, if you will appear to have been a labour of love, there being no evidence that he profited, or sought to, from such work (his navy salary and pension were both generous). While researching Gladstone, Marks was unable to uncover the origins or development of his impeccable craftsmanship, skills ordinarily requiring years of apprenticeship under an established binder. Marks did, however, find Gladstone's name "included in the annals of specialist societies relating to microscopy and optical magic lanterns, interests which suggest he had a keen eye and feeling for accuracy." And an eye for accuracy was clearly imperative for the intricacy and precision of Gladstone's elaborately tooled book designs, each stamped discreetly with the initials C. E. G. in gilt to the verso (undercover) of their upper boards. (P. J. M. Marks, 'The mysterious Captain Gladstone, RN a bookbinding James Bond?' The British Library 'Untold Lives' blog, 28 May 2020) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

(Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, M.A.). [Facsimile edition]. Pp. xii+142+[4](advertisements), 8 full page facsimiles, addenda, index; Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, CT, 1999. *Facsimile of the original 1924 edition published in a limited edition of 700 copies by The Bookman's Journal.

(Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, M.A.). Pp. xiv+142+[4](advertisements), 8 full page facsimiles, addenda, index; roy. 8vo; qr. dark brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt, lighter brown cloth boards, corners a trifle rubbed, spine faintly creased; top edges brown, others uncut and partly unopened; upper hinge starting, lower free endpaper offset, occasional slight soiling; The Bookman's Journal, London, 1924. First edition, limited to 700 numbered copies.

First edition with Mervyn Peake illustrations, first printing. Original grey pictorial card covers printed in blue and red, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with line drawings by Mervyn Peake throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing to the spine tips, the covers bright and fresh. The contents are spotlessly clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is chipped with a little loss at the head of the heavily faded spine. An attractive example of the first Mervyn Peake illustrated edition, which precedes Alan Wingate published British edition by eight years. Upon publication of this edition, Frances Sarzano, biographer of John Tenniel, wrote that "[e]ven Tenniel-charmed eyes should be captivated by the unfamiliar Walrus and the Carpenter, by the Sorry White Knight (who pleads for a Peake 'Don Quixote'), by the Mad Hatter and the Duchess's choleric child, but sadly enough, it will be at least two years [as stated above, it was eight] before this Peake Alice can be published in England, owing to the artist's contracts with English publishers." ('Alphabet and Image', 1946). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo. Macmillan and Company, London, UK. 1876xi, 83 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in decorated paper covered cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities . Previous owner's gift inscription present to the reverse of the FFEP and the half-title page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Hunting of the Snark is Lewis Carroll's wonderful nonsense poem that follows a ship's crew trying to hunt the Snark which may turn out to be a highly dangerous Boojum instead. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.