Unknown Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll 
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The 1961 Dover edition is an unabridged reproduction of the work originally published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1899 under the title: The Lewis Carroll Picture Book.
The selection of illustrations has been slightly revised and greatly augmented by the addition of forty-two photographs from the Morris L. Parrish Collection of the Princeton University Library, reproduced by permission.
The selection of illustrations has been slightly revised and greatly augmented by the addition of forty-two photographs from the Morris L. Parrish Collection of the Princeton University Library, reproduced by permission.
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Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other scholarly treatises. He is better known by his pen show more name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- The Lewis Carroll picture book : A selection from the unpublished writings and drawings of Lewis Carroll [pseud.] together with reprints from scarce and unacknowledged work
- Alternate titles
- The Unknown Lewis Carroll; Diversions & Digressions of Lewis Carroll; The Lewis Carroll picture book
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- 1899
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- Fiction and Literature
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- 820.81 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures Collections of literary texts in more than one form
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- PR4611 .A4 .C6 — Language and Literature English English Literature 19th century , 1770/1800-1890/1900
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