Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan (Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History) [Hardcover]

Morton N. Cohen (Editor), Anita Gandolfo (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 27, 1987 | ISBN-10: 052125602X | ISBN-13: 978-0521256025

This volume contains almost all the letters that Charles Dodgson (alias Lewis Carroll) wrote to his publisher during a professional relationship that spanned the last thirty-five years of the Victorian era, a time when the reading public expanded a hundredfold, when the techniques of mass book production were being shaped, and when laws governing copyright and bookselling were first forged in the English-speaking world. Dodgson's correspondence touched critically on all these issues, and is a fascinating record of the contemporary evolution of publishing as well as of the production and distribution of his own immensely popular children's books and other works. At the same time it charts the growth of the House of Macmillan from modest beginnings to its status as a leading publisher. Professor Cohen and Professor Gandolfo have provided a useful introduction and explanatory notes to the letters.

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Book Description

This volume contains almost all the letters that Charles Dodgson (alias Lewis Carroll) wrote to his publisher during a professional relationship that spanned the last thirty-five years of the Victorian era.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (February 27, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 052125602X
• ISBN-13: 978-0521256025
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,305,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), the pen name of Oxford mathematician, logician, photographer and author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, is famous the world over for his fantastic classics "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," "Through the Looking Glass," "The Hunting of the Snark," "Jabberwocky," and "Sylvie and Bruno."