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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). To Find the Day of the Week for Any Given Date, in: Nature vol. XXXV. -- Brief Method of Dividing a Given Number by 9 or 11, in: Nature vol. LVI. -- Abridged Long Division, in: Nature vol. LVII. London: Macmillan, 1887-1898.
3 vols, 4° (270 x 193mm). (Light soiling and wear on title and last leaf.) 20th-century cloth, morocco label. Provenance: Derby Municipal Technical College (stamps).
FIRST PUBLICATIONS of Dodgson's three contributions to Nature, which were not reprinted during his lifetime; the only reprints that WMGC records are those of 'To Find the Day of the Week ... ' in Further Magic of Lewis Carroll and Lewis Carroll Circular, both in 1973. Abridged Long Division, written 21 December 1897, was DODGSON'S 'LAST WORK' (WMGC p.151), and appeared a week after his death. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 197. (3)
3 vols, 4° (270 x 193mm). (Light soiling and wear on title and last leaf.) 20th-century cloth, morocco label. Provenance: Derby Municipal Technical College (stamps).
FIRST PUBLICATIONS of Dodgson's three contributions to Nature, which were not reprinted during his lifetime; the only reprints that WMGC records are those of 'To Find the Day of the Week ... ' in Further Magic of Lewis Carroll and Lewis Carroll Circular, both in 1973. Abridged Long Division, written 21 December 1897, was DODGSON'S 'LAST WORK' (WMGC p.151), and appeared a week after his death. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 197. (3)
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