Carroll (Lewis) [i.e. Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)]: Phantasmagoria, first edition, first issue, 1869, presentation copy, inscribed on half-title 'The Honble. G.Denman, with the Author's kind regards. Jan. 1869,' original blue cloth, gilt, g.e. (slightly affected by damp, lower joint neatly repaired), later cloth solander box.

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Carroll (Lewis) [i.e. Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)]: Phantasmagoria, first edition, first issue, 1869, presentation copy, inscribed on half-title 'The Honble. G.Denman, with the Author's kind regards. Jan. 1869,' original blue cloth, gilt, g.e. (slightly affected by damp, lower joint neatly repaired), later cloth solander box.

Lot Essay

The poem Phantasmagoria (pp.3-57) is apparently marked up for recitation, in pencil and blue crayon, by (?)Denman. It would appear that the main part of the performance was intended as a duet: the conversational to-and-fro being indicated by 'M'[e] and 'G'[host] at the appropriate points in the margins.

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