Eight (8) volumes of the works of Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), first editions, seven of which are uniformly bound by Zaehnsdorf in contemporary full red leather with marbled boards, raised spine bands, and gilt titles, dates, and accents. From the personal library of Lillian Stokes Gillespie (1869-1915). Volumes include:
PHANTASMAGORIA and Other Poems, London: MacMillan and Co., 1869. First Edition second issue, with “Alice…” mentioned on the title page and page 94 incorrectly printed as “49”. 8vo, 202 pp., original blue covers with gilt illustrations bound in rear.
RHYME? AND REASON? London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd., 1883. With 65 illustrations by Arthur B. Frost and 9 by Henry Holiday. First Edition, 8vo, 214 pp, with original blue covers with gilt illustrations bound in rear. Bound by Riviere & Son in full brown leather with gilt titles, dates and accents.
THE GAME OF LOGIC, London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. Second (first published) edition, with frontispiece, diagrams, and original printed envelope containing printed card 9 counter chips bound in rear, as is original red covers. 8vo, 96 pp plus 3 advertisements.
SYLVIE AND BRUNO, London: Macmillan & Co, 1889. With 46 black and white illustrations by Harry Furniss. 8vo, 400 pp, original red covers with gilt illustrations bound in rear.
THREE SUNSETS and Other Poems, London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd., 1898. 8vo, 68pp, With twelve black and white drawings of “Fairy-Fancies” by E. Gertrude Thomson. Green and gilt illustrated covers bound in rear.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LEWIS CARROLL (REV. C. L. DODGSON) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. First Edition, 8vo, 448pp, plus 12 advertisement pages. Original gilt stamped green covers bound in rear. Collingwood was Carroll’s nephew, publishing two books regarding his uncle- this, and The Lewis Carroll Picture Book.
THE LEWIS CARROLL PICTURE BOOK. A Selection from the Unpublished Writings and Drawings of Lewis Carroll, Together with Reprints from Scarce and Unacknowledged Work. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. First UK Edition, 8vo, 375pp, Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs and drawings. Original gilt stamped red cloth with Griffin bound in rear.
FEEDING THE MIND, London: Chatto & Windus, 1907. 31pp. With an introduction by English hymn writer and clergyman, William H. Draper. A lecture by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) delivered to a public audience of clergy in Derbyshire in Oct. 1884. After the speech, Dodgson gave the script to Draper, who went on to have the work published several years later. First edition, having previously appeared of Harper's Monthly Magazine, New York, May 1906, pp. 937-9. Originally issued in grey wrappers lettered and decorated in red and black, bound in at rear.
Note: Lillian May (Stokes) Gillespie (1869-1915) was an independently wealthy socialite from the Stokes family of New York, a line of enormously successful financiers and merchants.
Condition
Each in fair condition with Gillespie's bookplate to inside front boards; front boards separated from all except "Three Sunsets"; some spine labels loose or absent; leather with minor areas of loss; "Rhyme..." with flaking leather and tape reinforcement.
Provenance
Private Nashville Collection.
