Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891. Eighty-Fourth Thousand. Presentation copy, inscribed by Carroll on half-title: "Ruth Martin Woodhouse, from the Author Feb. 6, 1894". 8vo. (x), 192, (4, ads) pp. With numerous illustrations by John Tenniel. Publisher's red cloth-covered boards, decorated in gilt; spine ends and corners lightly worn; all edges gilt; illustrated book-plate of Edith Barbara Tranter on front paste-down; gift inscription, dated 1969, on lower half-title; Contents leaf loose; scattered light soiling to text; in red morocco slip case and chemise.

A fine presentation copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, inscribed by Lewis Carroll to Ruth Martin Woodhouse (1870-1897). Ruth was the second daughter of the Rev. George Girdlestone Woodhouse (1831-1897), a close friend and colleague of Carroll's from Oxford. Carroll often took Ruth on walks and out to tea, and in February 1887, took her to London to see the stage version of Alice.