Lewis Carroll, Photographer of Children: Four Nude Studies de Morton N. Cohen - 1988

The Rosenbach Foundation/Clarkson N. Potter, 1979. 32pp, thin, yellow cloth, no dust jacket, owner's name rubber-stamped on front and rear endpages, VG, short overview of Charles Dodgson's photography methods and accomplishments, excepts from his letters, four color plates of photos of young girls, technical details for each photo is explained on last page, references. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York / Philadelphia: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. / The Rosenbach Foundation, 1979. Hardcover. 32p., four images as called for, with period "colorization" and dramatic backdrops (the only copies to have survived Dodgson's direction to destroy all nude exemplars); a slender hardbound volume in 10x7 inch marigold cloth boards and black dust jacket. Jacket is very slightly edgeworn, otherwise faintest hints of any handling or age, a nice clean sound unmarked copy. The chldren are colored a little clumsily, the back drops are very 19th century.

NY: The Rosenbach Foundation and Clarkson N. Potter. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket creased and worn.. 1979. Hardcover. 0517537443 . Orange cloth with titles stamped in brown on front boards and spine. Notes, sources. Four color plates. Examines four surviving nude photographs of young girls taken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, Oxford mathematics and philosophy don, and a skilled amateur photographer. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 32 pages .

Philadelphia: Rosenbach Foundation / Clarkson N. Potter, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Small 4to, 31 pages, tawny cloth "Dodgson's photographic achievement [is] ' truly astonishing: he must not only rank as a pioneer of British amateur photography, but I would also unhesitatingly acclaim him as the most outstanding photographer of children in the nineteenth century' - Helmut Gernsheim." Here are the only four tinted nude photographs which are known to have survived. These were in the Rosenbach Museum. Also here are a handful of Dodgson's letters related to his and these photographs. This is the first public appearance of these to the general public. Professor Cohen also edited the LETTERS OF LEWIS CARROLL, and he explains here the broad issues here.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

new oversize hc, slightly off-kilter, expedited & international shipping not available