Notes by an Oxford chiel

Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1874. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Publisher’s cloth, title in gilt within gilt border on front cover; flyleaf detached. From the library of William Buller Heberden with his bookplate on the paste-down and signature dated January 1875 on the flyleaf. First collected edition and first printing under this title. This work comprises a group of Carroll’s pamphlets printed between 1865-1874. The six parts are for the most part good natured satires, usually of a local political nature written in Carroll’s well-known nonsensical writing. For example, the first part, The New Method of Evaluation as Applied to π is a comment on religion within the Oxford University, a work of simple logic. The other works include The dynamics of a parti-cle; Facts, figures, and fancies, relating to the elections to the Hebdomadal Council, the offer of the Clarendon Trustees, and the proposal to convert the parks into cricket-grounds;The new belfry of Christ Church, Oxford; The vision of the three T's, a Threnody; and The blank cheque, a fable.

William Buller Heberden (1838-1922) was born in Broadhembury, Devon, England , the oldest child of the Rev. William Heberden, son of Thomas Heberden, and Susannah Catherine Buller, the daughter of James Buller and Anne Buller.