dodgson charles ludwidge (3 Ergebnisse)

First edition thus, first printing. Original green morocco with gilt titles and ruled borders to the upper board. All edges gilt. A facsimile of Lewis Carroll's original hand-written manuscript, including his illustrations. A lovely fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and bright and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Also included is 'The Original Alice' booklet, illustrated with Carroll's photographs and John Tenniel's illustrations. Both are housed in the original gilt illustrated box with an oval portrait onlay. Issued in a limited edition of 3750 copies of which this example is numbered 3231. A beautiful and luxuriously produced Folio Society facsimile of the earliest surviving manuscript of what would become Carroll's beloved classic 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. The accompanying booklet gives a contextual background to the writing of 'Alice' and the lives of Carroll and Alice Liddell, the inspiration for the character of Alice. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the illustrator. Quarter vellum binding and decorative red paper covered boards with vellum tips. The titles to the spine stamped in 24-carat gold, illustrations on the upper board blocked in four foils. Top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Limitation spread blocked in two colours on two shades of laid paper, inset with an etching hand-printed under the artist's supervision on Somerset Velvet Buff hand-made paper; signed and numbered by the illustrator to the lower edge. Illustrated with 11 plates printed in full colour with gold borders on art paper, tipped into the text within ornamental gold borders; nine "scraps" printed in full colour, individually cut out and tipped in place. Approximately 50 line-drawings throughout the text and hand drawn initials. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, clean and fresh. The contents spotlessly clean throughout. The original plain glassine dustwrapper is retained. Housed in the fine solander case bound in Paradise cloth with spine titling label blocked in two colours on laid paper. Issued in a limited edition of 1000 copies of which this example in numbered 9 and signed by Charles Van Sandwyk in pencil to the lower edge of the original etching. A beautifully illustrated and presented Alice. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition. 4to. Publisher's original burgundy cloth, border ruled in blind, titles in gilt to the spine. Edges speckled red. Blue coated endpapers, binder's ticket of Burn to the rear pastedown. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some rubbing at the spine tips and corners with minor fraying at the upper spine fold. The contents with a previous owner's name to the reverse of the front endpaper and a little spotting to the prelims, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. Housed in a quarter red morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. One of the key mathematical works by the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In addition to his celebrated, beloved books for children, Dodgson produced almost a dozen works in the fields of geometry, linear and matrix algebra, mathematical logic, and recreational mathematics, all published under his real name, whilst in his role as lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. The present work concerns determinants; these "are the sum of of the products of a square block of quantities. Their condensation, or reduction to simpler forms, facilitates the solution of simultaneous linear equations, and other similar problems" (Williams, The Lewis Carroll Handbook). Although seemingly far removed from his fictional fantasies, Dodgson's academic work and his children's novels exercised a mutual influence. As Professor Francine Abeles has written, "many of the ideas involving inversions and mirror images that are so prevalent in the Alice books found their way into Dodgson's more serious work as well," for example Alice's shrinking, which is something like the shrinkage - or condensation - of a set of numbers to a single number, as explored in the present work. Dodgson's paper on the subject was read to the Royal Society on 17th May 1866, with the production of the text itself the result of a great deal of time and intellectual exertion on the author's part: "this little book has given me more trouble than anything else I have ever written: it is such entirely new ground to explore". Only around 750 copies of this first edition were printed, although the exact number is unknown. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.