Carroll Collection

A blog about my Lewis Carroll Collection : How it started 25 years ago and how it evolved illustrated with photographs of all the key items.

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My Lewis Carroll collection was sold in two sales in December 2017 and January 2018, with a further single item in March, by the extremely capable Dominic Winter auctioneers.
The process was accompanied by a... https://t.co/r2K0wdFOG8

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ANNOUNCEMENT

In the year of the 150th Anniversary of the publication of “ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by... http://t.co/vWBjECtdDw

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Art Once Owned by Lewis Carroll.

Together with the books from Lewis Carroll’s library , this picture from his... http://t.co/B5Ij3LPuPO

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Three Further Lewis Carroll related Pamphlets

The first is the Alphabet Cipher, anonymously issued by Dodgson (... http://t.co/XOdIXBUITD

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Further Books from Lewis Carroll's Library.

Each of these, displaying evidence of Dodgson's wide ranging... http://t.co/Q18caAT5Zl

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Doublets, A Word Puzzle, by and annotated by, Lewis Carroll.

This is the abridged issue , of 8 pages, published... http://t.co/aMq8dti7Jn

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QUESTIONS IN LOGIC annotated by Lewis Carroll.

A remarkable survivor – Dodgson had copies of this large logic... http://t.co/MudeL7R82o

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A presentation copy of Lewis Carroll’s “Syzygies and Lanrick” to his student Millicent Bigg. ( WMGC 244).... http://t.co/oxNu2G8TK3

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Oxford High School Logic Lessons : Lewis Carroll and Millicent Bigg

Millicent Bigg was a member of Dodgson’s... http://t.co/P0uZjtFNXc

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The Formulae of Plane Trigonometry printed with symbols ( instead of words) to express the “goniometrical ratios”... http://t.co/oSLhqMEB5z

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Lewis Carroll reads late sixteenth century Italian pastoral verse

This book I bought in a Bloomsbury book... http://t.co/jokUOaOkeh

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Twyford School Eleven - albumen print by Dodgson 1859

I bought this my original Dodgson photograph on Ebay in... http://t.co/R2FM6GZPzs

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The Lost Plum Cake

A niece of Lewis Carroll, Elizabeth Wilcox, wrote a book for children in which no single... http://t.co/CTx7JSAnis

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The Blank Cheque 1874

I acquired this fine copy of the first issue of one of Dodgson's famous satirical squibs... http://t.co/ohCXDmgJNm

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Index to Tennyson's In Memoriam and variant

After a Centenary conference in 1998 at Christ Church , I went along... http://t.co/rMZXcZOgPM

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Three Years In A Curatorship - one of fifty copies

This is my copy of one of the rarest Carroll pamphlets. I... http://t.co/hsNiuW5cdy

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This book belonged to a member of the Liddell family of Oxford

I found this in a secondhand bookshop ( and... http://t.co/QfQ5NiOQsF

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Rare variant Sylvie and Bruno Concluded - Presented for the Use of Mechanics Institutes, Reading Rooms.

Lewis... http://t.co/YmnqAE9aiu

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Did Lewis Carroll use this book as a door-stop ?

He certainly owned this volume of Chamber's Journal of Popular... http://t.co/FIBedNTPMD

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A Present from Lewis Carroll to his sister-in-law

Sometimes an item is of greater value in whole than any of... http://t.co/wvYpSCxjMM