Inscribed

A Tangled Tale. By Lewis Carroll.

London: Macmillan, 1886.

Price: $6,500.00


About the item

Second edition (third thousand). With six illustrations by Arthur B. Frost. [12], 153, [1, blank], 1, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Brown morocco, spine gilt in six compartments, covers with an image of dragon in profile in gilt, gilt dentelles, a.e.g., by the Zahn Bindery. With the original red cloth covers bound in. Williams 49.

Item #33841

Inscribed by Dodgson in purple ink on the half-title: "May Beringer from the Author. Ap. 15, 1890."
The recipient was possibly the daughter of a Mrs. Beringer, probably a friend of Dodgson's to whom he wrote at least one letter in 1892 (Letters of Lewis Carroll II, p. 904, note 1).