8vo. Wood engraved diagrammatic frontispiece, numerous diagrams in text; 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end; complete with original printed envelope containing the separate card diagram (envelope torn with old tape repairs, flap of envelope detached, card with a few short tears and one crease); COMPLETE WITH 9 ORIGINAL COUNTERS, 5 gray and 4 pink (with two additional pink and one additional gray counter laid in). Original red cloth gilt, black coated endpapers (front endpaper disbound with minor chipping, a few gatherings or leaves disbound, separations to hinges); quarter morocco folding case.

RARE SUPPRESSED FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 50 COPIES BOUND AT DODGSON'S REQUEST. Dodgson was not satisfied with the first issue, initially intended to be printed in an edition of 500 copies, so the issue was suppressed.  In a letter to the publishers of 5 December 1886, Dodgson complains that Baxter used "old type, which obliged him to damp the paper so much that the letters print a little too thick ... and the crooked printing showed me that, to get the best results, it does not do to trust the local printers" (Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan, pp. 216-217). "A mystery edition which is rarer than would be expected" (Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 193).

[With:] CARROLL. The Game of Logic. London, 1887. With original printed envelope and separate card diagram (lacking counters). Second edition.