Accession number
PML 352027
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
London : Macmillan and Co., 1865.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
First edition (July 1865), first issue.
Signatures: [a]⁴ [b]² B-N⁸.
In the prefatory poem, the first line of the last verse reads, "Alice! a childish story take,"; last line: "Plucked in a far-off land." Table of contents: "Rabbit-hole".
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 (July 1865), printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, was withdrawn by the author because of defective printing.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.
High reserve; fragile binding.
Signatures: [a]⁴ [b]² B-N⁸.
In the prefatory poem, the first line of the last verse reads, "Alice! a childish story take,"; last line: "Plucked in a far-off land." Table of contents: "Rabbit-hole".
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 (July 1865), printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, was withdrawn by the author because of defective printing.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.
High reserve; fragile binding.
Description
[12], 192 p. : ill. ; 20 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Henry Hollister Pease; from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt, signed Doves Bindery, C-S, 1898. In red morocco case.
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