Accession number
PML 352818
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
Boston : The Howe Memorial Press, Perkins Institution and Mass. School for the Blind, 1904.
Credit line
Gift; Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.; 1987.
Notes
This embossed text, called "Boston Line Type," predated Braille. It was invented by Samuel Gridley Howe, first director of the Perkins Institution, and was used between 1835 and 1906.
Gift of Nelson Coon, librarian of the Perkins Instition to Arthur Houghton in 1953.
Gift of Nelson Coon, librarian of the Perkins Instition to Arthur Houghton in 1953.
Description
86 leaves of raised type ; 37 cm
Provenance
Perkins Institution for the Blind (bookplate and embossed mark on t.p.); gift of Nelson Coon, librarian of the Perkins Instition to Arthur Houghton in 1953; the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Binding
Maroon half-morocco-grain cloth with fabricord sides.
Classification
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