Lewis Carroll: Photos and letters to his child friends / Edited by Guido Almansi, notes by Brassai and Helmut Gernsheim. — Parma: Franco Maria Ricci, 1975 ©.
Hardcover volume, 355 x 240 mm, bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine with a photo portrait of Mary Millais (1860-1944), in a black cloth clam-shell box 370 x 253 x 40 mm, with a shamrock diaper black paper adorned with publisher’s coat of arms pasted to the front. Pp.: [1-12] 13-213 [3], with 41 glued-in photomechanically reproduced photographs, chiefly from the Gernsheim Collection at the University of Texas, two of them of Alice Liddell (pp. 123 and 127).
Printed on hand-made blue laid paper. Edition is limited to 3,000 copies, of which this is copy № 1200.
Title-page: Lewis Carroll | Photos and Letters | to His Child Friends | Edited by Guido Almansi | Notes by | Brassai and Helmut Gernsheim | Franco Maria Ricci | 1975 ||
Colophon: This volume was printed in Milan, Italy, in the month of November 1975, under the direction of Franco Maria Ricci. The hand-made paper is the work of the Pietro Miliani mills at Fabriano. This first edition consists of three thousand numbered copies. Copy n. [1200]. Facsimile.
Seller’s description: Near Fine condition Hardcover Signed by Franco Maria Ricci on the colophon page, Numbered and Limited Edition #1200/3000 of copies. Includes Notes by Brassai and Helmut Gernsheim, with 41 tipped-in sepia-toned photographs, 213 pages. “The Signs of Man Volume 3”. Black boards bound in Orient silk with gold engraved lettering on the spine and cover and a sepia-toned photograph affixed to the front cover, handmade Ingres pastel paper manufactured by Cartiere Milliani in Fabrianoo with decorated endpapers and deckled fore-edge. Housed in a black clamshell case with clover leaf pattern in Very Good + condition with the exception that there is no spine label and very light wear to the extremities. Oversize folio: 9″ x 13 3/4″
Contributors:
Carroll, Lewis (British, 1832 – 1898) – Author/Photographer
Ricci, Franco Maria (Italian, 1937 – 2020) – publisher
Almansi, Guido (Italian, 1931 – 2001) – editor
Brassai [Halász, Gyula] (Hungarian–French, 1899 – 1984) – notes
Gernsheim, Helmut (Jewish-German, 1913 – 20 July 1995) – notes
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| Character/Sitter | Carroll, Lewis (British, 1832 – 1898), Hargreaves [née Liddell], Alice (British, 1852 – 1934) |
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| Author/Editor | Almansi, Guido (Italian, 1931 – 2001), Brassai [Halász, Gyula] (Hungarian–French, 1899 – 1984), Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] (British, 1832-1898), Gernsheim, Helmut (Jewish-German, 1913 – 1995) |
| Artist | Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] (British, 1832-1898) |
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