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...mathematics professor who was its author, naturally signed Alice with the name he had used before, for his more casual writings: Lewis Carroll. His book was illustrated by Sir John Tenniel, famed Punch cartoonist. In the first edition, the illustrations were so blurred that purchasers were advised to return their copies in exchange for nice clean second editions. From the start, Alice in Wonderland was a huge success. Queen Victoria wrote to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and asked him to send her some of his other books, whereupon, anxious to preserve the distinction between C. L. Dodgson and the frivolous Lewis...
...case there is one of Carroll's "Wonderland postage stamp cases" with drawings by John Tenniel on the back and case. "Eight or nine words about letter writing" that went with Carroll's own personal stamp case, are of especial interest. In this case, also, is "The Game of Logic" with diagrams and counters...
Widener Library has just received from the library of the late Harcourt Amory '76, of Boston, his notable collection of Lewis Carroll books, pamphlets, and letters, containing many original drawings by John Tenniel, it was announced last night. This is a gift in memory of Mr. Amory from his widow and children, Gertrude A. Hutchins, Harcourt Amory '16, and John Singleton Amory...
...Appleton & Company, New York, who issued the book with a new title-page dated 1866. For a long time the edition published in London in 1866 was considered the first. A copy of this edition in the collection has, as frontispiece, an unusual plate hand-colored by Tenniel, the artist...
...volumes without mention-most honorable mention-of the sketches and cartoons. These are the output of genius and catch in one page more of the spirit of the time than most writers can put into twenty of print. The books are illuminated by drawings from the pens of Tenniel, Swain, Partridge, Du Maurier and many others who have made both "Punch" and themselves famous. And it is in these cartoons that Mr. Punch betrays his prophetic vision; in the very opening of the third volume we find "Wilful Wilhelm", with the famous "Dropping the Pilot" cartoon in the background, reciting...