Lewis Carroll - Alice-in-Wonderland.net Alice-in-wonderland.net About Lewis Carroll Pseudonym The author of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” is Lewis Carroll. This is an pseudonym; his real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. (His last name is pronounced with a silent ‘g’.) Dodgson first used ‘B.B.’ to sign his non-professional writings, but in March 1856, when he wanted to publish his poem ‘Solitude’ in the magazine “The Train”, Edmund Yates, a magazine editor, thought that this one was not appropriate. Then Dodgson came up with ‘Dares’ (from Daresbury in Cheshire, his birthplace), but that one was also rejected. Finally he invented Edgar Cuthwellis (composed from the letters of his name), Edgar U.C. Westhill (idem), Louis Carroll (he translated his name to Latin, and back: Lutwidge = Ludovic = Louis, Charles = Carolus) and Lewis Carroll (idem). Yates chose the last one. For his learned mathematic books Dodgson used his own name.

Throughout this website I will use both names; when I’m talking about Carroll I am referring to his Alice books and when I call him Dodgson I’m talking about his private life. The life of Dodgson Dodgson was born on 27 January 1832 in the old parsonage at Daresbury, Cheshire. He was the 3rd child and eldest son of Reverend Charles Dodgson and Frances Jane Lutwidge (who were first cousins) and had 3 brothers and 7 sisters. He was very close and protective of them, especially the girls. Even as a child his talent was evident as he clearly enjoyed entertaining his brothers and sisters with stories and games. At the time of his birth, his father, Dr. Dodgson, was the vicar of Daresbury, Cheshire (he later was presented with the Crown living of Croft, Yorkshire, and subsequently became Archdeacon of Richmond and one of the Canons of Ripon Cathedral), and was a distinguished scholar whose favorite study was mathematics. In 1843 they moved to Croft, Yorkshire. At first, Charles was educated by his father. When he was twelve, he was sent to Mr.

Tate’s School at Richmond. In 1846 Dodgson was enrolled at a boarding-school in Rugby where he had a miserable time because of his shyness and several illnesses. In May 1850 he matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied mathematics and took up residence as an undergraduate in January 1851. In 1854 Dodgson gained a 1st class degree in mathematics and one year later he was appointed lecturer in mathematics and Sub-Librarian at Christ Church. Dodgson was not a very inspiring teacher; it is said that his mathematical lessons were quite boring. He taught until 1881. Dodgson was ordained a deacon in the Church of England on December 22, 1861. In 1898 he went to his sisters in Guildford, where he died of pneumonia on 14 January. Religion It is often said that Dodgson was a sincere Christian, although there is reason to believe that he had religious doubts. He was ordained a deacon in 1861.

It was the rule on Christ Church that deacons should enter the priesthood (or else they’d loose their job), but Dodgson never did. It might have been because of his stammer, but we do not know for certain why the Dean let him get away with it. Dodgson never got married. Physique Dodgson stuttered and was asymmetric; his blue eyes were not at the same level and one shoulder was higher than the other. His smile was also slightly askew. He was deaf on one ear because of an illness when he was at Rugby School, suffered from insomnia and was very thin because he ate only one meal a day (he was a little obsessed with eating). According to most accounts he was six foot tall. Personality Dodgson was a very precise and punctual man who liked order (he made lists of all kinds of things and even kept track of menus in his diary, so that “people would not have the same dishes too frequently.”). If something was not to his liking, Dodgson was likely to write a letter to the concerning person. He also satirized the academic politics of Oxford in articles, booklets, and leaflets.

He felt that by printing his arguments, rather than debating, he could logically arrange his arguments, and his stammer wouldn’t be a hindrance. It is said that he also was prudish and very shy, and only at ease in the company of little girls, but this is not the case. Besides his child-friends, Dodgons also had many adult friends which he visited often. Some of these, like actrice Ellen Terry, were former child-friends. Their friendship endured, even though they had grown up. He loved the company of children, whom he told many stories. He was especially fond of little girls, but it is not true that he disliked boys and babies. He had many child friends, although most of the time he did not keep them very long, and wrote them many letters. If he went on a train journey or to the beach, he always made sure that he had plenty of games and puzzles with him in case he met a new little girl. Alice Liddell was one of his favorite child-friends. Hobbies and other pastimes Dodgson was much more than only a mathematician or clergyman; he was a photographer, writer of books and many letters, pamphleteer, poet and inventor.

He also was curator of the senior common room at Christ Church (from 1882 to 1892). He was fond of theatre and opera (although his church disapproved of it). He couldn’t endure it if people made jokes about God. Dodgson was devoted to games as croquet, backgammon, billiards and chess, enjoyed conjuring and card tricks and invented many mathematical and word puzzles, games, ciphers and aids to memory. He was very interested in new inventions and invented many things himself, for example a tool for writing in the dark. Dodgson read and possessed lots of books. He had a diary that consisted of 13 volumes. If he had a particularly lucky day he wrote ‘I mark this day with a white stone’. He also liked writing letters, especially humorous letters to his child-friends. From January 1861 until his death in 1898 he kept a register of all the letters that he wrote. It consisted of 24 volumes and contains 98,721 letters!

Dodgson was very interested in photography; he took it up when it was still in its infancy (1856) and was one of the best amateur photographers of his time. He ceased photographing in 1880 for unknown reasons. It is said that he didn’t like the new process of developing the photo’s but that is not certain. He enjoyed sketching or photographing little girls in the nude, because he thought their naked bodies extremely beautiful, but he only did this with their mothers’ permission and if the children were completely at ease with it. He made sure that after his death the pictures would be burned or returned to the mothers. It should be noted that all Victorian artists did studies of child-nudes, which was a trendy subject for the time. Other writings In his life Dodsgon wrote many mathematical books, but also books for children. He even wrote mathematical books especially for little children! His most important work was ‘Euclid and his modern rivals’ (1879).

Some other work of his hand: ‘A syllabus of plane algebraical geometry’ (1860); ‘Guide to the mathematical student; elementary treatise on determinants’ (1867); ‘Curiosa mathematica’ (1888); ‘Symbolic logic’ (1896). For children he wrote ‘Phantasmagoria and other poems’ (1869); ‘The hunting of the snark’ (1876); ‘Rhyme? and reason?’ (1883); ‘A tangled tale’ (1885); ‘Sylvie and Bruno’ (1889); ‘Sylvie and Bruno concluded’ (1889). The Alice books made from Dodgson the most quoted author, Shakespeare and the Bible excepted. © Alice-in-Wonderland.net Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | Lit2Go ETC Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children’s literature by the English mathematician and author, Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is fraught with satirical allusions to Dodgson’s friends and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The Wonderland described in the tale plays with logic in ways that has made the story of lasting popularity with children as well as adults. The book is often referred to by the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland. This alternate title was popularized by the numerous film and television adaptations of the story produced over the years. Some printings of this title contain both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. To access artwork from the 1889 Harper's publication, visit the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland collection on ClipArt ETC . Source: Carroll, L. (1865). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: MacMillan Publishing Co. Alice's testimony angers the Queen, resulting in a harsh sentence before the verdict is read. Amidst the sudden chaos of Wonderland, Alice suddenly finds herself in more familiar surroundings.

Year Published: 1865 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND [together with] THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (2 volumes, both Presentation Copies) Carroll, Lewis (Charles L. Dodgson) London: Macmillan, 1872. Presentation copies of two of the most important books in children's literature. The ALICE is inscribed in Dodgson's hand, "Violet Mary Ann Eliza Molyneux, from the Author. Sep. 18, 1873." LOOKING GLASS is inscribed, "Agnes Elizabeth Sophia Molyneux from the Author. Sep. 18, 1873." These are the A. Edward Newton copies that were sold by Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York, April 16-18, 1941, Lot # 336. The AAIW, inscribed to Violet, is the 37th thousand, in the original Macmillan red cloth and is about very good (hinges are cracking).

The TTLG, inscribed to Agnes, is the 29th thousand and is in similar condition. Newton's Oak Knoll bookplates are on the front pastedowns, and those of Roger Hawes West on the front free endpapers. They are housed in a magnificent solander box custom made by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Edward Wakeling, editor of Lewis Carroll's diaries, has affirmed that the presentations are genuine, and he suggests that the books were probably sent by Carroll from Guildford because the presentations are in black ink (books he signed in London were almost always inscribed in purple ink). In his diary on September 16, 1873, Carroll noted: "Went to hear the 'infant pianistes,' Agnes and Violet Molyneux, and was quite charmed with their performance. Left a note for Mrs. Molyneux offering Alice's Adventures." Wakeling indicates that Carroll visited the family the next day and states that "this appears to be his only contact with them.

An extensive search of census records and registers of performing artists has failed to locate them." We have found a reference to the Molyneux sisters in the July 5, 1875 issue of The Musical World, reporting a piano recital they performed at the Beethoven Rooms on May 27, 1875. The September 25, 1875 issue of The Musical World reports another concert by the sisters at the Royal Aquarium in Brighton. Although one of Carroll's maternal great grandmothers was Jane Molyneux, there is no evidence that he was related to the sisters.. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Early Printings. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good. Illus. by John Tenniel. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Red Cloth Covered Boards. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Carroll, Lewis. London: Macmillan, 1866. First British edition after the suppressed edition. Hard Cover. Small octavo 192 pgs. With 42 illusts by John Tenniel. Contemporary full red moracco binding.

Covers lightly gilt decorated (double gold lines along four edges). Three edges gilt. Back strip with five raised bands and gold decorations. Marbled end papers. Book is in a dark red cloth covered slip case which was made for the book and which is in fine condition. Fine condition except for some light rubbing of outer hinges which is difficult to see. This is a very nice copy. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Carroll, Lewis; London:: Macmillan,. 1866.. First edition to be published but technically the second British edition, as the exceedingly rare 1865 first edition was suppressed and only 22 copies are known to exist today. His classic tale of Alice's fall through the rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar creatures. The twists of logic throughout this tale have gained it lasting popularity with children and adults alike, and it is considered to be one of the best examples of the "literary nonsense" genre (Wikipedia). Finely, freshly bound in full, red goatskin with four raised spine bands; three gilt-stamped, green-leather spine labels (title, author & date); gilt and blind spine decorations, including gilt center stamps onlaid in green leather.

Front and back covers each with inset panel of hand-colored, black-foil images stamped on cream-colored lambskin after Tenniel's original illustrations. Housed in clamshell box with quarter-red-goatskin rounded spine, raised spine bands, center stamps, leather spine labels, and red linen cloth; box lined with red velvet. Binding and case by Dragonfly Bindery/StudioBinding; design executed by Patricia & George Sargent. Frontis tissue darkened and scattered light foxing throughout otherwise the interior is in very good condition. The binding is fine. . ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND CARROLL, LEWIS TENNIEL, JOHN. CARROLL,LEWIS. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. London: Macmillan & Co. 1866. 8vo (5 3/8 x 7 5/8"), early full polished blue calf with triple gilt rules by Riviere with the original covers and spine bound in at the rear. The spine has raised bands in 6 compartments with a gold flower design, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, a Fine copy. First published edition, with 42 illustrations by John Tenniel.

The publishing history of this title is now well known. Because Carroll was unhappy with the original printing of "Alice" he recalled all copies to destroy them. It was re-set by Clay and released in Novmber of 1865 with the 1866 date on the title page. Only a very few copies of this first recalled issue are known to exist. The remainder of the unacceptable first issue sheets were sent to New York and bound by Appleton with a new title page. TIPPED-IN TO THIS COPY IS A QUIRKY 2-SIDED LETTER BY CARROLL USING HIS CHARACTERISTIC PURPLE INK! Dated Feb. 8. 1888 it reads: Dear Steward, I am much obliged for the estimates for the electric bell, and shall be quite willing to bear my share of the expense, under any of the arrangements named, I should want a 'push' in each of my 2 bedrooms - Hadland thought that (as both rooms look out North) the best way to reach them would be to continue the roof cord, & bring it down outside and in at the windows: however, you can arrange it as you think best.

Please not to charge further Quarterage, for C.R., to Mr. S. W. Worthington. Very Truly Yours, C. L. Dodgson. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1866. Tenniel, John. Octavo. (v)ff., 192pp. First edition, second issue. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. Carroll's enduring tale of a child's dreamworld was first issued in 1865 by Macmillan and Company of London, but Carroll and Tenniel were unhappy with the print quality of the illustrations and canceled the issue, insisting that the book be reprinted. Few copies of that first issue were ever released; fewer still are known to exist today. Many of the sheets had yet to be bound when Carroll suppressed the edition, and a number of these unbound sheets had been sold to Carroll's American publisher, Appleton, who added its own title page. Thus, the first American edition is comprised of the sheets from the suppressed London edition. Subsequently, Macmillan issued its second edition of Alice with re-set type and reprinted illustrations. Alice was an immediate sensation.

Copies of the book were avidly read by their young owners and tend to show some wear as a result. This copy bound by Rivière in full red calf with triple gilt rules on both covers, gilt dentelles, and marbled endpapers. Spine richly gilt in six compartments, with leather labels in two compartments, lettered in gilt. Original endpapers and red cloth binding bound-in following the text. Rear board faintly scuffed, spine lightly rubbed in spots. Pages show occasional light finger smudges and a few professionally repaired marginal tears; very faint owner's inscription. A.e.g. (Ray English 185A; Carroll Handbook [1979] 44; Williams 9; see Printing and the Mind of Man 354). ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (First Arthur Rackham Trade Edition in Fine, Original & Unrestored 1907 Dust Jacket) Carroll. Lewis (Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] London: William Heinemann, 1907. "Lewis Carroll" (Dodgson, C[harles] L[utwidge]. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.

London: William Heinemann, [1907]. FIRST TRADE EDITION of the Arthur Rackham Illustrated issue. A FINE, bright, unworn copy in original publisher's green boards decorated in black and gilt with an illustration of the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon to the upper board. With 13 full page color plates (and dozens of b/w illustrations in the text) by Arthur Rackham. IN THE ORIGINAL 1907 DUST JACKET which is fine, unrestored, and (in short) magnificent. A remarkable survival, exponentially more rare than Rackham's unsigned but glamorous deluxe limited edition which was published in an edition of 1130 copies -- most of which survived as prized books whereas dust jackets on trade editions from this era were simply not preserved in any numbers.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland CARROLL, LEWIS London: Macmillan, 1891. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to one of his young friends, “Edith E. Lucy from the Author, Nov.

6, 1893.” This edition, the eighth (84th thousand), contains an entirely reset “Mouse Tale” (page 37) and a new version of the illustration on page 91, which shows Alice as “faceless”. Edith Lucy was one of Dodgson’s logic students in high school. The relationship with Edith continued until Dodgson’s death. She helped him in making advertisements regarding spoiled copies of Looking-Glass, an edition he largely gave away, and also assisted him in preparing presentation copies of Sylvie and Bruno Concluded for shipment. Original cloth, slightly frayed, front hinge weak, overall, very good or a little better in a custom cloth clamshell box. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles] London: William Heinemann, & New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907 First trade edition. Original green gilt pictorial cloth with Gryphon and Mock-Turtle to front board. Signed by Rackham with an original pen and ink drawing of a winged Gryphon and dated 23.3.08 on the half-title page. A very good copy with some rubbing and light wear to the extremities.

The deluxe limited issue of Rackham's "Alice" was not signed by Rackham because he was traveling at the time of the book's publication. Housed in a gilt-decorated custom brown half-morocco fleece-lined folding box. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote the nonsensical "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll for one of his favorite child friends, Alice Liddell, who was also a frequent subject of Dodgson's portrait photography. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was a prolific British artist and illustrator, best known for his deluxe editions of popular children's books. Artistically inclined since childhood, Rackham started out illustrating for newspapers, but it was not until he began drawing for children's literature that he received critical acclaim. In response to his burgeoning fame, Rackham's publisher, William Heinemann, began producing deluxe and trade editions of his illustrated works, the first being Rip Van Winkle in 1905.

Deluxe editions were produced in a limited edition of numbered copies (ranging in quantity from 250 - 2,020), bound in vellum bindings, printed on handmade paper, and signed by the illustrator. The trade editions were published concurrently in simple bindings, on thinner paper, and with fewer color plates. This publication strategy benefited both publisher and artist; Rackham produced about one book per year and would have an annual gallery exhibition showing his original artwork for his latest book. The recipient of multiple awards for illustrations, Rackham was a diverse artist with a talent for both the fantastical and the intricacies of human nature, as demonstrated in his famous illustrations for Peter Pan.. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles] London: Macmillan and Co., 1891 Illustrated by John Tenniel. Later printing (Eighty-Fifth Thousand). Signed by Tenniel on the title page. Publisher's red cloth, with an illustration of Alice holding a pig to the front board, with an illustration of the Cheshire Cat to the rear panel, lettered in gilt, black coated endpapers.

Very good, with some light toning to the spine, minor soiling to the boards, bright gilt, spine lightly starting inside the front cover, otherwise sturdy binding, bright and clean pages. Overall, a tight and attractive copy, extremely scarce with Tenniel's signature. Housed in a custom slipcase with matching chemise. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote the nonsensical story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll for Alice Liddell, who was a frequent subject of Dodgson's revolutionary portrait photography. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland includes a black and white frontispiece along with forty-two in-text illustrations by John Tenniel, Dodgson's frequent artist collaborator, with whom he had a somewhat volatile relationship due to their mutual perfectionism. Indeed, the true first issue of Alice was published by Macmillan in London in a print run of 2,000 copies, but was quickly suppressed because neither author nor artist approved of the quality of the reproductive illustrations.. Illus. by Tenniel, John. Signed by Illustrator. Hard Cover. Very Good. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (AND) THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 2 VOLUMES Carroll, Lewis.

(DODGSON, CHARLES L.) N Y: Limited Editions Club.. Fine/Very Good & Fine Slipcases.. 1932. First Thus. Limited. Full-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed Limited Edition. TWO VOLUMES BOTH SIGNED BY 'ALICE'. Nos. 530 of 1500 cc. Alice in Wonderland signed by the typographer & binder Frederic Warde in the colophon & signed Alice Hargreaves (the original "Alice") on a blank sheet bound in,.Through the Looking Glass, signed in the colophon Alice Hargreaves.Alice bound in red calf; Looking Glass in deep blue calf. elaborate gilt designs on sides and spines, all edges gilt. BOTH BOOKS ARE FINE.Each housed in a matching slipcase. The blue slipcase is faded on the spine and margins and the corners are lightly rubbed, Very Good. The red case is Near Fine.This set is accompanied with copies of 2 letters by Alice Hargreaves son, Captain C.L. Hargreaves.

1) ,April 3 1932 of 29 lines discussing the proposals for signing these books. 2) March 5 1934 of 28 lines laying out the conditions for signing the books and agreeing to the terms. . . ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (Peter Newell Edition, Fine in Fine DJ with Original 1901 Gift Box) Carroll, Lewis (Charles L[utwidge] Dodgson) New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1901. Carroll, Lewis [Charles L. Dodgson] [Peter Newell]. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1901. First Edition, thus. Frontispiece photograph of "Lewis Carroll" and 40 marvelous monotone plates featuring the illustrator's unique take on the Alice characters. Previous owner's 1901 Christmas inscription, tiny bit of offsetting to the title page, some pages carelessly opened and others unopened. An exceedingly FINE COPY in original publisher's cream-colored paper-covered boards, t. e. g., with gilt titles and stamped vignette of Alice on front board.

In an exceedingly FINE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET, virtually faultless. In a complete intact ORIGINAL GIFT BOX (the first example of this gift box we've ever seen). There is a patch of staining at one corner and some nicks and rubs -- otherwise the box is in excellent condition. The best surviving example of this landmark "Alice" known to us and it surely would be a centerpiece for any superb collection of famed Alice illustrators.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Peter Newell. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (Superb Copy of the Harry Rountree Illustrated First Edition in Original Publisher's Cloth) Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (Harry Rountree) London: Nelson, 1908. 'Carroll, Lewis'. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and New York: Nelson, (n. d. but 1908). 92 color Illustrations by Harry Rountree. First Edition. 4to. A FINE copy in original publisher's green cloth decorated in color and gilt, t. e.g.

A spectacular copy of one of the most important Alice books from the Golden Age of Alice illustration. Rountree's vision of Alice appears like no other and the volume itself (binding, paper quality, quality of the images) is downright stunning. This example is fresh and virtually faultless. There is a previous owner's tiny inked name on the half-title but the book is otherwise unmarked. The spine and cover gilt are both almost completely unrubbed and the first issue white enamel spine label is unchipped, quite rare thus. . First Edition. Decorative Boards. Fine. Illus. by Harry Rountree. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland CARROLL, Lewis London, Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to The Medici Society, 1914., 1914. First Riccardi Press edition. 8vo. With the original illustrations by John Tenniel (the frontispiece and illustrations on p. 63, 65, and 125 have been slightly enlarged). Original 1/2 olive green cloth over cream boards with green and gold pattern, printed paper labels on the spine and upper cover, t.e.g., other uncut; green silk bookmark.

Dust jacket (unclipped; light toning). Fine. 131 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Number 150 of 1,000 copies. Printed by the Riccardi Press. Extra spine and cover labels tipped-in at end. Lovett & Lovett 71a.. Hardcover. New/Fine. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. --- & --- THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE. CARROLL. LEWIS. (The Rev Charles Dodgson). ; Tenniel. John. Illustrates Macmillan & Co. London. 1932 and 33. TWO VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE. 8vo, (7.4 x 5.2 inches). Both volumes are beautifully Illustrated throughout, with forty-two and fifty line engravings respectively, by John Tenniel . Bright, clean copies, finely bound, by Riviere & son, in early full dark red morocco. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. The compartments ruled and fully decorated in gilt.

Elaborate gilt ruled borders on boards with central colour leather onlay illustrations of Alice with the Dodo to the front board and Alice and the Red Queen to the rear. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Turn-ins with fully gilt decorative borders. Some very light rubbing to the edges and a front blank free endpaper neatly removed (the marbled endpapers are all intact) but overall this is a highly attractive binding in very good condition. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles] Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, first printing. About Very Good. Spine cloth faded with shallow chipping at ends, light rubbing and light soiling to cloth, tape stains to paste downs, joints exposed on both sides of the front free end paper with associated rubbing to the fore edge of ffep, previous owner details at front and a ding to the edge of the page block causing chips to several page edges; else a much nicer copy than normally encountered. The first edition to be printed in America, following the suppressed 1865 edition which utilized British sheets, and of which there are few surviving copies.

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND Carroll, Lewis (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson); illustrated by Arthur Rackham: London: William Heinemann. 1907. First edition with these illustrations. First edition with these illustrations. Deluxe Limited Edition. Publishers original white cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. With 13 tipped-in colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard and 15 black-and-white line drawings by Arthur Rackham. A very good copy, the binding clean and square, the contents without previous owners inscriptions or stamps with spotting to the text pages and tissue guards. All illustrations are present as called for and in fine condition. An attractive example of this finely illustrated Alice. Hand numbered 998 or 1100 copies (there where also 30 copies for presentation numbered 1101 - 1130). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

The Alice in Wonderland Story First Told | History Today The Alice in Wonderland Story First Told Cultural , Literature A classic children's book was born on July 4th, 1862. In 1856 the classical scholar Henry Liddell, of Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon, moved into Christ Church, Oxford, where he had been appointed dean. With him were his wife and their sizeable brood of children, the most interesting of whom in the light of developments was their second daughter, Alice. The family soon became close friends with one of the Christ Church bachelor dons, the mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Himself the eldest brother of eight siblings, Dodgson got on well with children, who liked him and relished his ability to tell them strange, exotic and engagingly whimsical stories. On that particular July day, when Alice was ten, she and two of her sisters set out from Folly Bridge in a rowing boat with the 30-year-old Dodgson and a friend of his, a Trinity College don called Robinson Duckworth, along the Isis for a picnic at Godstow.

On the way the girls asked Dodgson to tell them a story and he responded with a tale he made up as he went along about the fantastic world that a girl called Alice discovered when she went down a rabbit-hole. The real Alice was so delighted that she asked him to write it down for her, which he presently did, with some extra episodes added, as well as his own illustrations. He later showed Alice’s Adventures Under Ground to his friend, the Scottish author George Macdonald, whose children were so taken with it that Dodgson was encouraged to look for a publisher. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland duly came out from Macmillan in 1865 under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, which was arrived at by a complicated process that involved turning the names Charles Lutwidge into Latin as Carolus Ludovicus and inverting them. The book had the benefit of amazing illustrations by John Tenniel. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There followed in 1871. The two works are among the most popular and most famous children’s books in the English language and, like the best children’s literature, are also loved by adults.

An authority on the subject and a children’s writer himself, the late Roger Lancelyn Green, called them ‘the perfect creation of the logical and mathematical mind applied to the pure and unadulterated amusement of children...’ There is no doubt that Alice Liddell gave her name to the fictional Alice, though Dodgson always denied that he intended a portrait of her. The fictional Alice had the same birthday as the real one, May 4th and, in the poem in Through the Looking Glass that starts ‘A boat beneath a sunny sky,’ the first letter of each line spells out the real Alice’s full name – Alice Pleasance Liddell. Incidentally, it also seems that the character of the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass owed something to the Liddell children’s alarming governess. The friendship between the Liddells and Dodgson had broken down in 1863, for reasons that are not clear – the relevant page in his diary was cut out by one of his descendants – but it may be that Mrs Liddell was uneasy about him and Alice. Polite relations were resumed after a few months, but the earlier warmth did not return.

Still to come in 1876 was another masterpiece, The Hunting of the Snark. Dodgson also published other volumes of poetry, as well as learned books on mathematics, and he invented gadgets, puzzles and games, including a forerunner of Scrabble. He remained a bachelor to his death in 1898, a few days before his 66th birthday. Quantities of ink have been spilled on what exactly was the nature of his feelings for Alice Liddell and the many other young girls he knew and loved. He was an excellent photographer and his liking for taking photos of young girls in the nude makes it hard not to think that there was a deep core of sexual feeling there, but the evidence strongly suggests that this was never openly manifested and that he never molested any of them. Alice Liddell grew up a beauty and in the 1870s she seems to have attracted Queen Victoria’s youngest son, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, but nothing came of it, though he was later godfather to one of Alice’s sons. In 1880 she married a man called Reginald Hargreaves. Dodgson sent them a wedding present.

When Hargreaves died in 1926 Alice was so short of money that she put the manuscript of Alice’s underground adventures that Dodgson had given her up for auction at Sotheby’s. It fetched £15,400 (equivalent to £450,000 or more today). In her last years she said she was ‘tired of being Alice in Wonderland’. She died in 1934 at the age of 82. Lewis Carroll – author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - The British Library Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) © National Portrait Gallery, London Biography Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, which he adopted when publishing his famous children’s novels and nonsense verse. The son of a Cheshire parson, Dodgson grew up in a large family which enjoyed composing magazines and putting on plays. In 1851, he went to Christ Church, Oxford. By 1855, he was a fellow (which necessitated celibacy), lecturing in mathematics. He occupied a tower in the college for the rest of his life.

He wrote many books on mathematics and logic, and enjoyed inventing puzzles and games and playing croquet. His love of paradox and nonsense and his fondness for small children led to the writing of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), a story which he began while rowing Lorina, Alice, and Edith, the three small daughters of the College Dean H G Liddell, up the Thames for a picnic near Binsey. A sequel, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, appeared in 1871. Interviewed when she was old, Alice remembered him as tall and slender, with blue/grey eyes, longish hair, and ‘carrying himself upright, almost more than upright, as if he had swallowed a poker’. He published Phantasmagoria and Other Poems in 1869, The Hunting of the Snark in 1876 and Sylvie and Bruno in 1889. Dodgson wrote and received ‘wheelbarrows full’ of letters (a letter register he started in his late 20s and kept for the rest of his life records more than 98,000 sent and received).

Many of these were on religious and political issues while others were full of light-hearted nonsense. He excelled in artfully staged photographs, many of children in costumes and others of friends, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Alfred, Lord Tennyson . He died, aged 65, of pneumonia. Further information about the life of Lewis Carroll can be found here via the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Name Dodgson biography Version for printing Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is better known by the pseudonym "Lewis Carroll". Although he was a mathematician, he is best known as the author of Alice's adventures in wonderland (1865) and Through the looking glass (1872), children's books that are among the most popular of all time. They are distinguished as satire and as examples of verbal wit. Dodgson wrote mathematical works under his own name but for his children's books he invented the pen name "Lewis Carroll" by translating his first two names "Charles Lutwidge" into Latin as "Carolus Lodovicus", then anglicising and reversing their order. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's father was the Reverend Charles Dodgson.

Charles Dodgson senior was born in 1800 and studied at the University of Oxford where he gained a First Class degree in both mathematics and classics. He was appointed as a mathematics lecturer at Oxford where he held a Fellowship but, on marrying his cousin Frances Jane Lutwidge in 1827, he had to give up his Oxford Fellowship. He then became a curate at All Saints' Church in Daresbury and it was in that town that ten of Charles and Frances' eleven children were born. Charles Lutwidge was the eldest of his parents three boys, having two elder sisters Fanny, born in 1828, and Elizabeth, born in 1830. Charles was baptised on 11 July 1832 in his father's church and grew up in a strict Christian household. His early education, like that of his brothers and sisters, was provided by his parents. He read mostly religious books as a child and an indication of his rapid progress is that he had read Pilgrim's Progress by the time he was seven. Charles looked up to his father and wished to be like him.

Since mathematics was his father's favourite subject, it is easy to see how Charles gained an early love for it. Not only did Charles model himself on his father, but his father also wanted his son to follow in his footsteps by studying mathematics at Oxford, then obtaining a Fellowship, marrying and becoming a vicar. At Daresbury the Dodgson family had to struggle financially, so it was a relief when Charles's father moved to become vicar at Croft-on-Tees in Yorkshire in 1843 where his income was substantially increased. At Croft the family lived in a large rectory with a wonderful garden but chose to live much more simply than they might have done. On 1 August 1844 Charles enter Richmond School as a boarder, living in the headmaster's house. The school was only ten miles from his home and so his parents were able to visit him just over a week after he arrived. They found that he was settling in well and indeed at this school he received an excellent foundation for his education, excelling in mathematics. On 27 January 1846, Charles' fourteenth birthday, he enrolled at Rugby School. This was a famous school but one where Charles found things extremely difficult.

A shy, sensitive boy with a stammer, he suffered bullying from the older boys and, as Clark writes [ 7 ]:- From every point of view life at Rugby was a personal disaster for young Dodgson. Despite being deeply unhappy, Dodgson achieved high standards in his school work, receiving a steady stream of prizes. Again mathematics was his favourite subject but he also excelled at divinity. A number of illnesses which he suffered from in 1848 had a lasting effect. The first was whooping cough which he caught in the spring. He was left with a persistent cough which returned at various times throughout his life. In the autumn he contracted mumps and this left him somewhat deaf in his right ear, a problem which never improved. He wrote afterwards of his time at Rugby (see for example [ 9 ]):- During my stay I made I suppose some progress in learning of various kinds, but none of it was done with love, and I spent an incalculable time in writing out impositions - this last I consider one of the chief faults of Rugby School. I made some friends there ...

but I cannot say that I look back upon my life at a Public School with any sensations of pleasure, or that any earthly considerations would induce me to go through my three years again. He left Rugby in December 1849 and in the following May he travelled to the University of Oxford to make the necessary arrangements to begin his studies there. As his father wished, Dodgson matriculated at Christ Church College Oxford, which had been his father's College. Things did not start very well for him, however, for there was a shortage of accommodation and he had to return to his parent's home in Croft and wait until accommodation could be arranged before starting his university studies. On 24 January 1851 Dodgson returned to Oxford to live with the Rev. Jacob Ley, a friend of his father. Two days later his mother died suddenly at the age of 47 and again he had to return to Croft. When he returned to Oxford he was filled with a determination to work hard so that he might win scholarships and become financially independent.

He was able to mix social and cultural activities with hard work at mathematics and in November 1851 he was awarded a Boulter Scholarship worth 20 pounds a year. After receiving a Second Class in classics and a First Class in mathematics in December 1852 he was awarded a Fellowship of 25 pounds a year for life. This came with the right to live in Christ Church College, but although there were no requirements to any further academic achievements, he was required to take Holy Orders and to remain unmarried. Dodgson's father was absolutely delighted with his son's success and, moreover, he himself had been made Canon of Ripon Cathedral in 1852, going on to become Archdeacon of Richmond two years later. This was the year when Dodgson completed his studies receiving a Third Class Degree in Classics but topping the list of those receiving First Class honours in mathematics by a good margin. The challenges ahead were now the senior scholarship competition and he knew that success in that would almost certainly lead to his appointment as a lecturer in mathematics. At this point, however, the usually conscientious Dodgson became too taken up with leisure and cultural activities and failed to put in the necessary work at mathematics.

He did begin to take pupils, although not as an official university tutor, and this too must have taken much of his time. Disappointed with his own performance in the two scholarship examination papers on 22 March 1855, and that on the morning of the following day, he gave up and did not turn up to sit the final paper on the afternoon of 23 March (only two students did sit it). Of course he did not receive the scholarship and wrote in his diary (see for example [ 9 ]):- It is tantalizing to think how easily ... I might have got it, if I had only worked properly during this term, which I fear I must consider as wasted. However, I have now got a year before me, and with this past term as a lesson ... I mean to have read by next time, Integral Calculus, Optics (and theory of light), Astronomy, and higher Dynamics. I record this resolution to shame myself with, in case March 1856 finds me still unprepared, knowing how many similar failures there have been in my life already.

He still had a hectic schedule, coaching pupils, and he also had, since February 1855, an official appointment as sub-librarian at Christ Church. In another scholarship examination he again failed to win an award but then took on coaching fourteen pupils for the Mathematical Examiner. This task (see for example [ 9 ]):- ... will give me no official position as it is merely a private arrangement between ourselves: it is decidedly favourable to my getting the lectureship hereafter, though it by no means secures it. During the summer of 1855 Dodgson taught at his father's school in Croft and by the time he returned to Oxford in October it was as a Mathematics Lecturer, the position that he had sought. It meant that he now did not need to take the scholarship examinations in March 1856 as he had planned. Dodgson remained at Christ Church, Oxford, lecturing on mathematics and writing treatises and guides for students until 1881.

Although he took deacon's orders in 1861, Dodgson was never ordained a priest, partly because he was afflicted with a stammer that made preaching difficult and partly, perhaps, because he had discovered other interests such as the theatre. It seems likely, however, that as time went on he found it harder to accept the view that non-Christian were condemned and, as a man of great honesty, would therefore find the oaths he would be required to swear to become a priest unacceptable. Among Dodgson's hobbies was photography, at which he became highly proficient. His interest began when visiting his uncle in 1855, and at that time he took some photographs with his uncle's equipment. He purchased his own camera and developing chemicals in March 1856 and began to experiment with pictures of landscapes, architecture, sculptures and, most of all, of people. His family, friends and colleagues became the subjects of his photographs but he excelled especially at photographing children, which was his greatest pleasure. Alice Liddell, one of the three daughters of Henry George Liddell, the dean of Christ Church, was one of his photographic subjects and the model for the fictional Alice.

Other subjects were the children of the writer George Macdonald and the sons of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Not only did Dodgson enjoy photographing children, but he also enjoyed their company. In 1932 Alice Liddell recalled how she and her sisters Lorina and Edith:- ... used to sit on the big sofa on each side of him, while he told us stories, illustrating them by pencil or ink drawings as he went along ... He seemed to have an endless store of these fantastical tales, which he made up as he told them, drawing busily on a large sheet of paper all the time. They were not always entirely new. Sometimes they were new versions of old stories; sometimes they started on the old basis, but grew into new tales owing to the frequent interruptions which opened up fresh and undreamed-of possibilities. It was in 1862 that Dodgson wrote down the stories at Alice's request. Henry Kingsley, the author, visited the Liddells and happened to pick up Dodgson's stories. He made it very clear that Dodgson had to be persuaded to publish his writings.

Three years later, after polishing them and adding some more material, Dodgson published his first "Alice book" as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. As a mathematician, Dodgson was rather conservative but certainly thorough and careful. He was the author of a fair number of mathematics books including: A syllabus of plane algebraical geometry (1860), Two Books of Euclid (1860), The Formulae of Plane Trigonometry (1861), Condensation of Determinants (1866), Elementary Treatise on Determinants (1867), Examples in Arithmetic (1874), Euclid and his modern rivals (1879), Curiosa Mathematica, Part I: A New Theory of Parallels (1888), and Curiosa Mathematica, Part II: Pillow Problems thought out during Sleepless Nights (1893). None of his mathematics books have proved of enduring importance except for Euclid and his modern rivals (1879) which is of historical interest. Dodgson wrote it to defend using Euclid 's Elements as a means of teaching geometry.

The book is written in the form of a play in which the ghost of Euclid returns to defend his book to modern geometers. Euclid sums up saying:- Let me carry with me the hope that I have convinced you of the importance, if not the necessity, of retaining my order and numbering, and my method of treating straight lines, angles, right angles, and (most especially) parallels. Leave me these untouched, and I shall look on with great contentment while other changes are made ... It is a serious work with well argued cases on all sides regarding the teaching of geometry. It contains much evidence of Dodgson's humour too as for example after the ghost of Euclid makes his first appearance he leaves saying:- ... that concludes our present interview; so we will meet again when you have reviewed my Modern Rivals one by one. If you had any slow music handy, I would vanish to it: as it is ... [Vanishes without slow music] Although Dodgson argued here for retaining Euclid 's way of treating parallels, in Curiosa Mathematica, Part I: A New Theory of Parallels published nine years later, he presented his own ideas on dealing with the parallel axiom.

As a mathematical logician, he was interested in increasing understanding by treating it as a game. He published The Game of Logic in 1887 and Symbolic Logic Part I in 1896. In the latter work Dodgson presented a way of visually representing propositions in a diagram which is similar to Venn diagrams, developed by John Venn in 1881, but Dodgson's pictures have certain advantages. However, Venn diagrams are today much used and Dodgson's gameboard method is forgotten. Symbolic Logic Part I contains the statement that:- I have a quantity of manuscript in hand for Parts II and III, and hope to be able - should life, and health, and opportunity, be granted to me - to publish them... In fact between 1959 and 1970 portions of the missing parts were found by William Warren Bartley and published for the first time in 1977. In the article [ 23 ] Bartley claims that the previously unpublished material shows specific achievements which can be credited to Dodgson.

These are:- By 1896 Dodgson had developed a mechanical test of validity for a large part of the logic of terms, an achievement usually credited to Leopold Löwenheim [in 1915]. As early as 1894 Dodgson used truth tables for the solution of specific logic problems. The application of truth tables and matrices did not come into general use until 1920. By 1896 Dodgson had developed the method of trees for determining some validity, which bears a resemblance to the trees frequently employed by contemporary logicians. Other recent work has again put Dodgson's mathematical contributions in a much more favourable light than it was previously seen. For example in [ 20 ] Abeles writes:- A discussion is given of three pamphlets on elections and committees by C L Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) written between 1873 and 1876. It is argued that Dodgson's work on cycles anticipates a stochastic model proposed by Thompson and Remage in 1964 and includes ideas that are basic to maximum likelihood estimation.

In [ 18 ] we also have a very positive view of Dodgson's numerous contributions to the theory of elections, perhaps his most significant being Parliamentary Elections and The Principles of Parliamentary Representation both written in 1884:- Dodgson's work present a complete and unified approach to the electoral reform issues which were being discussed at the time, but in doing so he developed and contributed ideas to game theory and apportionment which are well in advance of the 1880s. Finally we should mention Dodgson's love of puzzles [ 9 ]:- He was good at charades, he sang, he told stories. Soon enough, jokes, puzzles, games, questions-and-answers, tricks with numbers and with words, and mental exercises became for him a means of everyday amusement and for his family and friends source of fun and diversion. He also played traditional games - chess, croquet, billiards, cards - but his mind was not content with these, and he expanded, extended, and experimented with all forms and fashions, pushing traditional entertainments to their outer limits and inventing new ones.

in the 1870s he created a veritable cornucopia of conundrums and mental challenges, brilliant additions to the store of magic and game playing ... He was so creative and so productive that his games and diversions fill sizeable anthologies. The book [ 14 ] contains "42 delightfully diverting mind-benders", puzzles which Dodgson was working on at the time he died. His death was sudden. He contracted a cold in early January 1898 which at first seemed very minor but it developed into a chest problem and his doctor insisted he go to bed. His breathing became more and more difficult and he died at 2.30 in the afternoon of 14 January. Dodgson, writing as Lewis Carroll, contributed wonderful examples of nonsense verse the best known of which is 'Jabberwocky' from Through the Looking-Glass. This begins:- 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

The Hunting of the Snark, published by Dodgson (as Lewis Carroll in 1876), has been called:- ... the longest and best sustained nonsense poem in the English language. Several words from his nonsense poems have entered standard English language usage. For example, the word 'chortle', a word that combines 'snort' and 'chuckle', appears in 'Jabberwocky'. Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson Banned Books: Alice in Wonderland | From McFarlin Tower Banned Books: Alice in Wonderland Posted on 2014 February 5 by KristinaRosenthal Alice in Wonderland or Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a novel published in 1865 written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. “It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children” (literature.org). Alice in Wonderland has been adapted into many theatrical and screen versions, most famously, Walt Disney’s version produced in 1951.

The novel was recently turned into a television series on ABC titled Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. The novel was also referred to in Jefferson Airplane’s famous song “White Rabbit” . Although it is evident that the story has held popularity with children and adults for many years, Dodgson’s work has been challenged and banned multiple times since its publication. The novel is most often challenged for its alleged promotion of drug use. The most controversial scene takes place after Alice enters Wonderland and meets the philosophic caterpillar. The caterpillar sits atop a mushroom, smoking a hookah, offering Alice advice on how to find the white rabbit. He also provides Alice with a piece of the mushroom that will alter her size to help her on her journey. The presence of the hookah and the body altering and allegedly mind altering mushroom enraged academic institutions, parents, and religious groups. This outrage led to the book being banned in the United States during the 1960s. In the early 1900s the state of New Hampshire banned the book from all public schools because the novel was accused of promoting sexual fantasies and masturbation. This accusation most likely refers to the questionable sexual activities of the author, not the novel’s content.

The novel has also been challenged for its use of talking animals, which were deemed an abomination in the sight of God by many religious institutions. In 1931 the Governor of the Hunan Province in China banned the book for the same reasons arguing that “animals should not use human language, and that it was disastrous to put animals and human beings on the same level”. This accusation is a common defense for censorship of books, as you will see in our next blog on Winnie the Pooh. To read more on why Alice in Wonderland is on the American Library Association’s top 100 banned books list click here . To see our exhibit featuring Alice in Wonderland visit the Department of Special Collections located on the 5th floor of McFarlin library, open to the public Monday-Friday 8-5.

Question: Under what pseudonym did Charles Lutwidge Dodgson write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
Answer: Lewis Carroll