Lot number: 811

A Single sheet poem signed C L Dodgson, (Charles Lutwidge, 'Lewis Carroll', 1832-1898) Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:
Thus slowly, one by one,
Its quaint events were hammered out –
And now the tale is done,
And home we steer, a merry crew,
Beneath the setting sun. Alice! a childish story take,
And with a gentle hand
Lay it where Childhood’s dreams are twined
In Memory’s mystic band,
Like pilgrim’s wither’d wreath of flowers
Pluck’d in a far-off land. concluding stanza of "All in the Golden Afternoon," the prefatory poem for Lewis Carroll's Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Estimate £2,000 to £4,000