Accession number
PML 352695.1-5
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
Oxford : Published by Emberlin and Son, [1889?]
Credit line
Gift; Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.; 1987.
Notes
Title and imprint from envelope.
The stamp case contains twelve separate pockets for stamps of different values, and two coloured illustrations (AAH 890.1).
On page [4] of stamp case: Invented by Lewis Carroll MDCCCLXXXIX.
Both folder and stamp case are illustrated.
Folder is second edition, with publisher's name and address above cat and price below: "price one shilling. (post-free, 13d.)"--Cf. Williams, Madan, & Green (AAH 890.3).
Another folder (AAH 890.4) is third edition[?], with publisher's name and address above cat and price below: "(post free, 13d.)" above "price one shilling". Cf Williams, Madan, & Green (AAH 890.4).
Library's copy lacks pamphlet 'Wise Words'.
The stamp case contains twelve separate pockets for stamps of different values, and two coloured illustrations (AAH 890.1).
On page [4] of stamp case: Invented by Lewis Carroll MDCCCLXXXIX.
Both folder and stamp case are illustrated.
Folder is second edition, with publisher's name and address above cat and price below: "price one shilling. (post-free, 13d.)"--Cf. Williams, Madan, & Green (AAH 890.3).
Another folder (AAH 890.4) is third edition[?], with publisher's name and address above cat and price below: "(post free, 13d.)" above "price one shilling". Cf Williams, Madan, & Green (AAH 890.4).
Library's copy lacks pamphlet 'Wise Words'.
Description
[4] pages : color illustrations ; 98 mm; envelope: 11 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Stamp case (AAH 890.1) inscribed in black ink at foot of pages [2-3] by the author: Mary Jackson, from the Inventor. Sep. 15. 1890.
Provenance
Inscribed to Mary Jackson; bookplate of Thomas and Jania Erwin (AAH 890.6); from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
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