Some Notes of The History of The Parish of Whitchurch, Oxon. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO C.L. DODGSON WHO WAS A CLOSE FAMILY FRIEND. FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES DODGSON.

Elliot Stock. London. 1895. First edition. Hardback. Green backstrip and brown boards. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR (a close friend) to Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), "C. L. Dodgson with kind regards from J.S." Map frontis., slightly creased. Boards slightly worn to extremities, pages partially unopened so possibly unread by Dodgson. Pages browned otherwise a clean and sound copy.John Slatter (1818-1899), Curate of Sandford-on-Thames, Vicar of Streatley, and Rector of Whitchurch, his wife, mother, and daughter Elizabeth ("Bessie") were close friends of Charles Dodgson, who visited and photographed them. In 2014 Sotheby's sold a set of the two Alice books, one inscribed in hand to Elizabeth Anne Slatter and the other to Bessie Slatter. The Through the Looking-Glass was one of a hundred presentation copies that Carroll sent out on 8th december 1871.