Lot No: 9510

Lewis Carroll [i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There', 2 volumes, 1867, 3rd edition & 1872, 1st edition copies of Dodgson's famous novel and its sequel, together with rare Lewis Carroll photograph of Ella Monier Williams and other associated ephemera. 'Alice in Wonderland', London, Macmillan, 1867, 6th thousand [3rd edition], 42 illustrations by John Tenniel as called for. 'Through the Looking-Glass', London, Macmillan, 1872, 1st edition, 50 illustrations by John Tenniel as called for, half title with closed tear repaired. Uniformly finely rebound in full vellum, each gilt ruled and titled and each with pictorial gilt illustration of Alice to upper board, each all edges gilt. Together with Photograph of Ella Monier-Williams as a child, seated on chaise longue, facing to the right, her left elbow resting upon a cushion, inscribed by her in an adult hand on the back ''Ella Monier-Williams/photograph taken by/Lewis Carroll'', albumen print taken by Carroll circa 1866, mounted on card as a carte-de-visite, slightly marked, approx size of image 10x6.5cm. Ella was the only daughter of Monier Monier-Williams, a professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford, where Dodgson taught mathematics. The author first mentions her in a diary entry of 1 May 1866: 'Dined at Prof. Monier Williams'. We had each called on the other twice, but never met before. I thought him pleasant, and Mrs. Williams particularly so. Also I saw the little Ella, whom I had noticed before, and wished to photograph' (Wakeling, Diaries, vol.5, p.146). It is known that between May and July 1866, Dodgson took at least fourteen photographs of the young Ella, including several of her wearing articles of New Zealand dress borrowed from the Ashmolean Museum. With entry for this photograph from Phillips catalogue 10/11/94 and printed provenance re Bickersteth family mounted on card leaf included. Together with Harry Furniss autograph signed clipped piece ''Sincerely yours Harry Furniss'' and Jack Tenniel [brother in law John Tenniel?] similar ''Yours my dear Bill always sincerely Jack Tenniel'' both tipped onto single card leaf, all housed together in custom made grey cloth solander box, gilt ruled and with gilt illustrations of Alice to front and spine. Written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, considered one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre and one of the most popular and influential works of English language fiction ever written.

Sale Price: £1,900.00