Accession number
PML 16725
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
London : Macmillan and Co., 1865
Credit line
Purchased in 1910.
Notes
First ed. - first issue [July].
Variant B: in the prefatory poem, the first line of the last verse reads, "Alice! a childish story take,"; last line: "Pluck'd in a far-off land." "Rabbit-hole" in table of contents.
The PML copy has mixed sheets from the Oxford and Clay printings, both published by Macmillan. The later printings are signatures b, B-C, and S-[T]. It is cased in an Appleton 1866 binding.
Signatures: [a]⁴ b² B⁴ C⁴ C-I⁸ S⁸ L-M⁸ N⁸. Signature S appears to be gathered in 4s; thus it is more probably S-[T]⁴. A mixed-sheet copy at the Lilly Library is actually signed with a T.
Pagination: Half-title (p. 1) pp. 2 & 3 blank; Frontispiece (4), Title, (5), 6 blank, prefatory poem of 7 stanzas (7-9), 10 blank; Contents (11), 12 blank. Text 192 pp. 8vo.
With a bibliographic note by F. B. Adams, Jr. on inner front bd.
The first issue of the first ed. (July 1865), printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, was withdrawn by the author because of defective printing. The Goodacre/Schiller census (1990) reports 23 copies. A second edition, printed by R. Clay, London, was issued in November of the same year though dated 1866 for the Christmas trade. The defective Clarendon Press sheets were issued with a cancel title page dated 1866 for publication in America by D. Appleton & Co.
According to Goodacre, at least one printer at the Oxford press was allowed to take a set of proof sheets, which he had bound by his brother, a binder in George Street, Oxford.
Variant B: in the prefatory poem, the first line of the last verse reads, "Alice! a childish story take,"; last line: "Pluck'd in a far-off land." "Rabbit-hole" in table of contents.
The PML copy has mixed sheets from the Oxford and Clay printings, both published by Macmillan. The later printings are signatures b, B-C, and S-[T]. It is cased in an Appleton 1866 binding.
Signatures: [a]⁴ b² B⁴ C⁴ C-I⁸ S⁸ L-M⁸ N⁸. Signature S appears to be gathered in 4s; thus it is more probably S-[T]⁴. A mixed-sheet copy at the Lilly Library is actually signed with a T.
Pagination: Half-title (p. 1) pp. 2 & 3 blank; Frontispiece (4), Title, (5), 6 blank, prefatory poem of 7 stanzas (7-9), 10 blank; Contents (11), 12 blank. Text 192 pp. 8vo.
With a bibliographic note by F. B. Adams, Jr. on inner front bd.
The first issue of the first ed. (July 1865), printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, was withdrawn by the author because of defective printing. The Goodacre/Schiller census (1990) reports 23 copies. A second edition, printed by R. Clay, London, was issued in November of the same year though dated 1866 for the Christmas trade. The defective Clarendon Press sheets were issued with a cancel title page dated 1866 for publication in America by D. Appleton & Co.
According to Goodacre, at least one printer at the Oxford press was allowed to take a set of proof sheets, which he had bound by his brother, a binder in George Street, Oxford.
Description
[12], 192 p. : ill. ; 20 cm
Binding
Red publisher's cloth, design of Macmillan but stamped at foot of spine: APPLETON & C[O].; very dark green (navy blue?) endpapers; all edges gilt. In red half-morocco slip case.
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