The Nursery Alice Signed with Four Letters By Lewis Carroll.

Editorial: Macmillan And Co, London, 1890

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This remarkable copy in extremely fresh condition signed by Lewis Carroll one of 100 copies presented to friends with a copy of the name recorded in a Lewis Carrolls notebook Second overall edition 1st UK edition This fabulous copy comes with four signed letters by Lewis Carroll a brief transcript of each belownbspEngraved and printed by Edmund EvansTitle page versonbspAdvertisements p 68 at end with slip advertising Sylvie and BrunonbspA fascinating collection of four letters written by CL Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll and addressed to Mabel Lewis Carroll first met Mabel Amy Burton on 16 August 1877 He noted in his diary Went on the pier in the evening and made another fortunate acquaintance my new friend is Mabel Amy Burton of 53 Pentonville Road Islington She seems to be about 8 Mabel herself is entirely charming and without an atom of shyness I never became friends with a child so easily or so quickly Though their friendship ended as Mabel grew these examples of correspondence provide precious insight into both Carrolls relationships and in the case of letter no 4 of how his taste for nonsense and the absurd permeated his real life as well as his work Revisiting letter no 4 weacirceurotradere gifted a particularly valuable passage acirceurotildeWhat is your idea of smallness I wonder And how do you distinguish it from largeness Do you call an elephant smallacirceuro for instance And do you call this a long letter Of course we are reminded of Alices adventures and her bizarre physical changes In the midfifties English psychiatrist John Todd coined the term Alice in Wonderland syndrome to refer to certain hallucinations induced by migraines sufferers would experience sizerelated hallucinations affecting both themselves and the objects around them Since many scholars have proposed that Carroll himself was plagued by these same illusions consequently using them as a source of inspiration for his two Alice booksnbsp A fine example of this famous work with such fabulous coversnbsp nbsp.

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Título
The Nursery Alice Signed with Four Letters By Lewis Carroll.
Autor
Lewis Carroll
Editorial
Macmillan And Co, London
Año de publicación
1890
Tipo de libro
book
Encuadernación
Hardback
Ilustrador
John Tenniel Edmund Evans
Edición
1st UK Edition.

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