BIB_ID
410283
Accession number
MA 8623.4
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 (1 page) ; 20.4 x 12.6 cm
Notes
Written on an invoice form printed "To T.J. Cobden-Sanderson / Bookbinder / The Doves Bindery / No. 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, W. / Cheques should be crossed 'London & South Western, Hammersmith."
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 8623.3.
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 8623.3.
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
Being a statement for the purchase and binding of a first edition copy of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" with a penny stamp of the Postage and Inland Revenue; indicating that payment of the balance is due on December 5, 1898.
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