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INSCRIBED BY CARROLL ON PUBLICATION DAY CARROLL, LEWIS. Phantasmagoria and Other Poems. 8vo, gilt-pictorial cobalt blue cloth, extremities rubbed

INSCRIBED BY CARROLL ON PUBLICATION DAY CARROLL, LEWIS. Phantasmagoria and Other Poems. 8vo, gilt-pictorial cobalt blue cloth, extremities rubbed with minor loss of cloth, light soiling; hinges cracked. London: Macmillan, 1869

  • Notes: first edition, inscribed by carroll on day of publication. One of 600 copies of the first state, without mention of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on the title-page. One of only twenty-eight publication-day copies, presented to "The Right Honbl. G Ward Hunt, with the Author's kind regards. Jan 1869." Hunt was a colleague of Dodgson at Christ Church, Oxford, and a Conservative M.P. recently elected to the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer in Disraeli's first Cabinet (1868). Williams, Madan, Green 68-70.

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