BIB_ID
410281
Accession number
MA 8623.3
Creator
Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922.
Display Date
1898 October 11.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.8 x 13.0 cm
Notes
Written on the letterhead of "The Doves Bindery / No. 15 Upper Mall / Hammersmith W."
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 8623.1, MA 8623.2 and MA 8623.4.
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 8623.1, MA 8623.2 and MA 8623.4.
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
Enclosing the account "for the purchase & binding of 'Alice in Wonderland' which is now ready for delivery. If you will kindly send me instructions for sending same together with cheque for the balance of the acct. I will at once forward it to you;" proposing the method of shipment; adding "The copy bound is an exceedingly good one & tho' it has lost its original cover I thought it better worth binding than a soiled copy with cover. The copy offered for sale by Spencer was an exceedingly dirty one & quite worthless."
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