Tour in 1867

from the Original Manuscript in the collection of M.L. Parrish, Esq., Pine Valley, New Jersey

by C.L. Dodgson [Lewis Carroll] 

Limited edition.  Philadelphia:  Privately printed, 1928  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD+ condition.

• Red morocco covers are mostly clean, with gilt ruled border and title. 
• Boards show some wear, exposure, scuffing, edgewear.  Corners are bowed, scuffed.  See photos.  
• Spine has gilt text and is darkened with scuffed ends.  See photos.
• Binding is strong.  
• Pastedowns and feps have some light staining. 
• Illustrations, ink drawings in the text, are bright and clear. 
• Interior is gently age-toned.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have gilt along head, fore and foot edges are untrimmed. 
• PS2026.0729

65 pages. 4.5 x 7.5 inches

First Edition, one of sixty-six copies printed.  Original publisher's red morocco over thin boards.  Gilt ruled border to covers, title in gilt on top board and spine.  Interior is unmarked; some toning to end papers, text block is gently tanned.  Boards show some wear at edges.  Lacking the glassine wrapper and box.  Condition is overall Very Good Plus for this scarce edition. 

This diaristic account is the work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll.  In the summer of 1867, Dodgson and his good friend Henry Parry Liddon undertook a tour of Russia, traveling via Berlin, Brussels and Cologne and returning via Dresden and Paris.  They both kept diaries of the journey, which was Dodgson's first, and only, trip abroad. 

Dodgson's original manuscript journals, in which he describes his tour, were acquired by Morris Longstreth Parrish (1867-1944).  Parrish was a prominent American stockbroker and legendary book collector, known as the dean of Carroll collectors.  His library at Dormy House in Pine Valley, New Jersey was devoted to Victorian novelists.  Known now as the Parrish Collection, the library and its extensive holdings of Carrolliana are now held by the Princeton University Library.     Parrish acquired the manuscript and published Dodgson's diary of his journey to Moscow for private distribution.  

Limited edition of sixty-six copies.  Privately printed in Philadelphia for distribution by M.L. Parrish.

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