[W. & G. Foyle (Foyles), Charing Cross Road booksellers.] Printed prospectus for ‘The Centenary Life of Lewis Carroll ' by Langford Reed, published by the firm as a ‘Trefoile Publication’.

This prospectus is a scarce item: no other copy has been traced. A 4to bifolium, with four unnumbered pages printed in red. Somewhat aged and worn, with a horizontal strip of light discoloration at the head of the cover, which has the title and author’s name surrounded by a border made up of Tenniel’s illustrations, beneath this is a quotation from Dodgson’s poetry and the price of ‘7/6 net’. Across the middle two pages is the heading ‘The Centenary “Life of Lewis Carroll”’. The text begins by explaining that Reed has made use of Dodgson’s letters to Ellen Terry. Later on comes the paragraph: ‘Mr. Langford Reed is well-known for his books of Nonsense Tales and Verses, based upon the humorous writings of Carroll, and so well has he acquitted himself with this new work, that he proves that he is the undoubted authority on his subject - the man of two well-defined lives - as the Reverend C. L. Dodgson and as Lewis Carroll.’ Details of the books specifications are on the recto of the second leaf, and on its verso is the order form. See Image.