[Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] "Lewis Carroll".

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 1871, [sixth edition, later impression] "twenty-seventh thousand", autograph letter signed ("CL Dodgson") tipped-in on title-page addressed to "Dear Chandler", [cf Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 46d], slight chips to endpapers, fading to binding; Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. 1872, first edition, first issue ("wade" on p.21), [Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 84], embossed stamp to front free endpaper; both 8vo, wood-engraved illustrations after John Tenniel, original pictorial cloth, gilt edges, some spotting and browning, slightly skewed, lower hinges splitting, spines frayed

Horace N. Pym (1844-1896) (bookplates)

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The autograph letter signed is written in Dodgson's distinctive purple ink and asks the recipient permission to "lend Wace's pamphlet to Baynes, our Reader in Physics" and assures him that care will be taken. He then asks "is there any use in suggesting how much I should like to have you come to dine... any day next week" (2 pages, 12mo, [Christ Church, Oxford], 4 December [no year]), some creases.

Chandler was presumably Henry William Chandler (1828-1889), Waynflete professor of moral and metaphysical philosophy at Pembroke College. He was also a curator of the Bodleian library.

To All Child-Readers of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 82] is also tipped-in.