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Symbolic Logic Part I Elementary.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1896.

Price: $7,500.00


About the item

First Edition, with slip "Important Corrections" dated February 24, 1896. Frontispiece diagram & numerous diagrams in text. xxxi, [1], 188 , [1], [3] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Pre-Publication Inscription. Brown cloth. In slipcase. Bookplate of Joan Whitney. Provenance: Sotheby's London June 19 & 20, 1933 lot 33; Williams, Madan & Green 270.

Item #250031

Inscribed on flyleaf "Hilda Rowell/ from the author/ Feb 22, 1896." see Cohen , Letter p. 1019-1020. Dodgson gave a Logic Lecture to the Oxford High School on Feb. 19, 1894, later Hilda (the eldest Rowell, 1873-1918) girl, Bessie and Hettie went to Christ Church for more Logic lessons. Hilda married in 1901 Frederick William Morris Woodrow, sometime Vice-Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.

"Presentation copies dated Feb. 22, 1896 are known..." W, M & G.