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The Nonesuch Omnibus Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe CARROLL, Lewis. (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll. With an introduction by Alexander Woollcott and the illustrations by John Tenniel. London: The Nonesuch Press, [1939]. First edition of the Nonesuch Carroll omnibus. Octavo (7 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 187 x 114 mm.). xiv, [2], 1165, [1, blank] pp. Black and white text illustrations. Bound ca. 1950 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in three-quarter red morocco, covers ruled in blind, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine slightly faded otherwise near fine. The so-called Nonesuch omnibus of the works of Lewis Carroll is "the best and fullest single-volume collection so far published. Besides the complete contents of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Sylvie and Bruno, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded and Collected Verse, A Tangled Tale and Notes by An Oxford Chiel, it contains 'Novelty and Romancement', 'A Photographer's Day Out', 'Wilhelm von Schmitz' (complete version), 'The Legend of Scotland', and 'Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing', with a few items reprinted from various places.There are also selections from Twelve Months in a Curatorship, Three Years in a Curatorship, and Symbolic Logic. Nothing is printed here for the first time, but the following rare items are of particular interest: 'Resident Women-Students', 'Some Popular Fallacies about Vivisection', 'Lawn Tennis Tournaments', 'What the Tortoise said to Achilles', 'A Postal Problem', 'The Alphabet Cipher', and 'Introduction to The Lost Plum Cake'" (Williams, Madan and Greene, p. 208). Williams, Madan and Green 313.
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