The Game of Logic.

CARROLL, Lewis.

Item Number: 136208

London: Macmillan and Co, 1886.

First edition of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s game. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth, illustrated. With a second issue of the original playing board and 8 of the original counters (5 gray, 3 red) laid in in the original printed envelope. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box.

“The native acuteness and ingenuity of [Carroll’s] intellect led him to devote much attention to formal logic, in whose intricate puzzles he delighted, and he almost seemed to have convinced himself that it was an engine for the discovery of new truth, instead of a means of detecting error—that more could be got out of the premises than was put into them” (DNB). This first published edition was preceded only by an extremely small private printing in 1886 that Carroll suppressed.