DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll"). The Game of Logic . London: Richard Clay for Macmillan, 1887. 8 o (185 x 124 mm). Wood-engraved diagram frontispiece and numerous diagrams in text; complete with original printed envelope (two closed tears), containing the separate card-diagram, and nine counters (four pink and five grey). Original red gilt-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered (hinges tender, otherwise fine). First Published (i.e. second) Edition. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CARROLL on the half-title: "Bessie Badcock, from the Author. Feb. 23, 1894" [the year enclosed within the loop of his elaborate pen flourish]. WITH BOARD AND ORIGINAL ENVELOPE EACH ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY CARROLL: "Bessie Badcock from L.C." "This edition, as with Alice's Adventures , [was] dated a year later than the true first edition: it is an entire reprint by Clay and Sons, of E. Baxter's Oxford work, and was speedily made, for the author's own copy reached him on 22 Feb. 1887" (Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch, p. 150). Miss Elizabeth ("Bessie") Badcock of Croydon, was a young woman who attended Dodgson's logic class while living at Oxford. As Miss Badcock was unable for some reason to continue attending his Logic Class, Dodgson sent her a copy of The Game of Logic with an autograph note (see below). Bessie Badcock may have been a member of the Badcock family, furniture-makers, of Oxford. In a letter from 12 June 1883 to J.R. Dasent, Dodgson makes reference to a Messrs. Badcock, when he recommends Messrs. Badcock for making the legs for a slab of elm given to Christ Church to be made into a table for the Common Room (see Letters , pp. 497-98). Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 196. [ With :] Autograph letter signed ("C.L. Dodgson"), to Bessie Badcock presenting The Game of Logic . Christ Church, Oxford, 23 February 1894. 1 pages, small 8vo . "My dear Bessie, I feel vexed about your disappointment in not being able to go on with the Logic Class, & I hope this may make up for it a little. You will find the first few pages easy, I think: & perhaps it will help you to know whether you are likely to care to learn the subject. As there are more than 40 years between our ages, perhaps you won't be offended if I sign myself Yours affectionately C.L. Dodgson." Dodgson was 62 at the time of writing, making Bessie probably around 20 years old--too young for his "Lewis Carroll" signature (although interestingly he does sign both the envelope and board "L.C."). Not in Letters . (4)
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll"). The Game of Logic . London: Richard Clay for Macmillan, 1887. 8 o (185 x 124 mm). Wood-engraved diagram frontispiece and numerous diagrams in text; complete with original printed envelope (two closed tears), containing the separate card-diagram, and nine counters (four pink and five grey). Original red gilt-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered (hinges tender, otherwise fine). First Published (i.e. second) Edition. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CARROLL on the half-title: "Bessie Badcock, from the Author. Feb. 23, 1894" [the year enclosed within the loop of his elaborate pen flourish]. WITH BOARD AND ORIGINAL ENVELOPE EACH ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY CARROLL: "Bessie Badcock from L.C." "This edition, as with Alice's Adventures , [was] dated a year later than the true first edition: it is an entire reprint by Clay and Sons, of E. Baxter's Oxford work, and was speedily made, for the author's own copy reached him on 22 Feb. 1887" (Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch, p. 150). Miss Elizabeth ("Bessie") Badcock of Croydon, was a young woman who attended Dodgson's logic class while living at Oxford. As Miss Badcock was unable for some reason to continue attending his Logic Class, Dodgson sent her a copy of The Game of Logic with an autograph note (see below). Bessie Badcock may have been a member of the Badcock family, furniture-makers, of Oxford. In a letter from 12 June 1883 to J.R. Dasent, Dodgson makes reference to a Messrs. Badcock, when he recommends Messrs. Badcock for making the legs for a slab of elm given to Christ Church to be made into a table for the Common Room (see Letters , pp. 497-98). Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 196. [ With :] Autograph letter signed ("C.L. Dodgson"), to Bessie Badcock presenting The Game of Logic . Christ Church, Oxford, 23 February 1894. 1 pages, small 8vo . "My dear Bessie, I feel vexed about your disappointment in not being able to go on with the Logic Class, & I hope this may make up for it a little. You will find the first few pages easy, I think: & perhaps it will help you to know whether you are likely to care to learn the subject. As there are more than 40 years between our ages, perhaps you won't be offended if I sign myself Yours affectionately C.L. Dodgson." Dodgson was 62 at the time of writing, making Bessie probably around 20 years old--too young for his "Lewis Carroll" signature (although interestingly he does sign both the envelope and board "L.C."). Not in Letters . (4)
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