CARROLL, THE GAME OF LOGIC, 1887, ORIGINAL CLOTH

SECOND (FIRST PUBLISHED) EDITION (see footnote), 8vo (186 x 123mm.), half-title, frontispiece, diagrams in text, envelope attached to upper free endpaper containing card playing board (second edition, dated 1887) and 7 counters (of 9; 4 grey and 3 pink), 2 leaves of advertisements at end, original red cloth gilt, upper cover spattered

Harold A. Jacobs, signature on envelope; bought from B. & L. Rootenberg, Sherman Oaks, CA, 1994

Tomash & Williams C28; Williams, Madan, Green & Crutch 196; Clare Imholtz, "The History of Lewis Carroll's 'The Game of Logic’" in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 97 (2003), pp.183-213

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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Dissatisfied with the initial printing of the work in 1886 by Baxter of Oxford, Dodgson withdrew the edition and had it reprinted by Richard Clay of London in 1887. However, there was no need to reprint the envelope with the card and counters, thus the second edition is found with the card dated either 1886 or 1887.