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[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll').] Twelve Months in a Curatorship by one who has tried it. Oxford: E. Baxter for the author, 1884.
12° (174 x 119mm). (Marginal dampstain on first two leaves, light soiling, a few corners a little turned.) Stitched pamphlet without wrappers as issued. Provenance: pencilled press-mark and trace of small case-label on spine.
FIRST EDITION, RARE, privately printed pamphlet, one of probably only 50 copies. Dodgson's account of his first year as curator of the Common Room at Christ Church, a position he held for nearly a decade, and focusing on his battles with the Wine Committee. Dodgson described this anonymous piece as 'largely autobiographical, slightly apologetic, cautiously retrospective, and boldly prophetic ... at once financial, carbonaceous, aesthetic, chalybeate, literary and alcoholic' (WMGC). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 163.
12° (174 x 119mm). (Marginal dampstain on first two leaves, light soiling, a few corners a little turned.) Stitched pamphlet without wrappers as issued. Provenance: pencilled press-mark and trace of small case-label on spine.
FIRST EDITION, RARE, privately printed pamphlet, one of probably only 50 copies. Dodgson's account of his first year as curator of the Common Room at Christ Church, a position he held for nearly a decade, and focusing on his battles with the Wine Committee. Dodgson described this anonymous piece as 'largely autobiographical, slightly apologetic, cautiously retrospective, and boldly prophetic ... at once financial, carbonaceous, aesthetic, chalybeate, literary and alcoholic' (WMGC). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 163.
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