[Manuscript Album:] 'The Great War, 1914'.

Published by circa and later, 1914

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Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United KingdomBlackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA

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written largely in black ink with some use of red, including to the ruled borders, portraits and other illustrations clipped from newspapers and magazines and pasted in, these with borders and captions supplied in manuscript, decorations and drawings to the text, most with some use of watercolour, including (as frontispiece) 'Flags of the Allies', the paper a little browned, pp. [55, a few blanks], small 4to, in a padded cloth 'Autographs' album, sometime rebacked, the original panels a little worn, some clippings laid in, the rear pastedown with a later 'Message for To-Day, 1944', good. An attractively kept album, which, despite the designated purpose ('Autographs'), has been used as a commonplace book for War poetry of the sort of patriotic strain that abounded in the early years of the conflict (Kipling has numerous entries). It is principally of interest for a Lewis Carroll parody, 'The Walrus & the Carpenter, Up-to-date', which, unlike a lot of its companions here, is otherwise hard to trace: signed 'M.B.H.', its protagonists have become 'The Crown Prince and the Emperor'; we have only found it in contemporary newspapers, including in Australia, but it does not seem to have ever been collected or have had a life beyond its original outing.…

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Bibliographic details

Title
[Manuscript Album:] 'The Great War, 1914'.
Author
(World War One.) (Carroll.)
Publisher
circa and later
Publication year
1914
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Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA

Oxford, United Kingdom

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Our premises are in the main Blackwell's bookstore, one of the largest and best known in the world, housing over 200,000 new book titles, covering every subject, disclipline and interest, as well as a large secondhand books department. The bookstore is in the centre of the city, opposite the Bodleian Library, Sheldonian Theatre, and many of the colleges and other university buildings, with on-street parking close by.

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Waterstones Booksellers Ltd trading as Blackwell's Rare Books

203-206 Piccadilly
Westminster, United Kingdom W1J 9HD