A List of the Writings of Lewis Carroll [Charles L. Dodgson] in the Library at Dormy House Pine Valley, New Jersey [with:] A Supplementary List of the Writings.

[Pine Valley]: Privately Printed, 1928, 1933.

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First editions. Copies no. 49 of sixty-six numbered copies, the first printed by Rudge, the second by Edward Stern & Company. Frontispieces, plates and facsimiles. viii, 148, [1]; xii, 116 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Full red morocco, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Some foxing and tanning to endsheets of each volume, errata slip to first volume tipped to limitation leaf, with paperclip shadow to top edges of adjoining leaves, spine of first volume somewhat rubbed and sunned. Very good. Madan, Green & Crutch,The Lewis Carroll Handbook, p. 262; Williams, Madan & Green (1962), pp.244-5.

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Copies were reserved strictly for presentation. The small printed slip that accompanied the errata for the first volume is laid in.
Now in the Princeton University Library, this library was one of the best and largest collections put together by a private individual of 19th century english literature "A fine catalogue of the best and largest collection of Dodgsoniana and Carrolliana in private hands...The numerous illustrations are all of bibliographical interest..." Madan.