Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

Limited French edition of Carroll's mathematical logic primer, illustrated by his great Surrealist admirer.

• Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (English).
• Illustrated by Max Ernst (German).
• Introductory essay by Jean Gattégno ("La logique et les mots dans l'oeuvre de Lewis Carroll").
• Conclusion by Ernest Coumet ("Lewis Carroll logicien").
• Paris: Hermann, 1966.
• 288 pages.
• Illustrated in black and white throughout.
• Edition of 85, of which 75 are numbered, this copy number 50.
• French translation by Jean Gattégno and Ernest Coumet.
• Bound in original olive-green wrappers in glassine jacket.

Selections from Carroll's Symbolic Logic, and The Game of Logic, translated into French and profusely illustrated by Ernst in charming and startling style: sometimes geometric and abstract, elsewhere figural and whimsical. Carroll's works held a perennial fascination for French and English surrealists and symbolists and all their descendants; Ernst in particular returned to Carroll's Alice figure repeatedly as motif and inspiration, and would rework some of the illustrations in Logique Sans Peine in his 1970 lithograph series for Carroll's Wunderhorn.