BIB_ID
373046
Accession number
MA 8623.1
Creator
Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922.
Display Date
1898 February 7.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 21.0 x 13.0 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmarks "From the Doves Bindery / No. 15 Upper Mall Hammersmith W." to "H.H. Pease Esq. / Grolier Club / 20 East Thirty Second / New York / U.S.A."
Part of a collection of three letters and a signed receipt from Cobden-Sanderson to H.H. Pease at the Grolier Club related to the purchase of a first edition copy of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and the binding of it. See MA 8623.2, MA 8623.3 and MA 8623.4.
Written on the letterhead of "The Doves Bindery / No. 15 Upper Mall / Hammersmith W."
Formerly laid in PML 352027 (Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (London : Macmillan, 1865)) together with Robert Southey's autograph poem "The old mans comforts & how he gained them," cataloged separately as MA 8622.
Part of a collection of three letters and a signed receipt from Cobden-Sanderson to H.H. Pease at the Grolier Club related to the purchase of a first edition copy of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and the binding of it. See MA 8623.2, MA 8623.3 and MA 8623.4.
Written on the letterhead of "The Doves Bindery / No. 15 Upper Mall / Hammersmith W."
Formerly laid in PML 352027 (Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (London : Macmillan, 1865)) together with Robert Southey's autograph poem "The old mans comforts & how he gained them," cataloged separately as MA 8622.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of Mr. Pease's letter "...with instructions to bind a copy of the first ed. of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' for Easter. I am sorry I am so pressed with work already in hand that I could not undertake to bind the book & to tool it within the time limited. If, however, a perfectly plain binding - which I think under any circumstances would be appropriate for that delightfully imaginative book - would suffice, I could perhaps manage it. But I could not undertake to bind in the cloth cover. The cover, however, should be preserved and [illegible] with the book."
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