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B. Midnight-blue goatskin is richly gilt in an expansive dentelle design of leafy and figured sprays created by Trevor Lloyd, m.b.e. in Shropshire in 2018. Its design alludes to the work of such historic French binders as Padeloup le Jeune and…

This portrait of the author was taken in the Common Room at Christ Church, Oxford. Hills and Saunders printed many of Carroll's later photographs after he had largely given up the work himself.

The riverboats Princess and Natchez were said to be the fastest paddle steamers on the Mississippi. During the late antebellum period, the sister riverboats made the round-trip journey to Vicksburg each week, departing New Orleans at 5:00 p.m. on…