Notes by an Oxford Chiel
James Parker and Co., 1874.
First collected edition. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to the upper cover. Issued without collective title and contents as often. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on title page of the first part, "Annie Murdoch from CLD. May /83". All edges gilt. A very good copy with hinges cracked, but bright and crisp.
A rare collection of Dodgson's famous 'Oxford Squibs', good natured satires, usually of a local political nature disguised in the sort of 'nonsense' writing popularised in the author's fiction writings.
The first section, The New Method of Evaluation as Applied to , for instance is not part of Dodgson's noted work on number theory, but a comment on religion within the Oxford University with such reasoning as,
"let H=High Church, and L=Low Church, then the geometric mean = HL: call this 'B' (Broad Church).
. . HL=B2"
The other parts comprise, The Dynamics of a Particle; Facts, Figures, and Fancies; The New Belfry, of Christ Church Oxford; The Vision of the Three T's; The Black Cheque, A Fable. The pamphlets were published individually between 1865 and 1874 and collected here for the first time.
Presentation copies are rare with only one other offered at auction in the last forty years.
Stock ID: 35933
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