Accession number
PML 352023
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
London ; New York : Macmillan and Co., 1886.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
"Price four shillings".
"Richard Clay and Sons, London and Bungay"--T.p. verso.
"Who will riddle me the how and why?"--p. [i].
Postscript, p. [1]: "The profits, if any, of this book will be given to children's hospitals and convalescent homes for sick children: and the accounts, down to June 30 in each year, will be published in St. James's Gazette, on the second Tuesday of the following December"; followed by a verse by Longfellow.
"A Christmas gift to a dear child in memory of a summer day."--p. [4].
"An Easter greeting to every child who loves 'Alice.'"--p. [93].
"Christmas greetings (from a fairy to a child)"--p. [1] following main sequence.
Lacks publisher's advertisements following main sequence.
Housed in box made to look like a book, with stamped spine: "Alice's adventures under ground / Lewis Carroll / Presentation copy in presentation binding".
"Richard Clay and Sons, London and Bungay"--T.p. verso.
"Who will riddle me the how and why?"--p. [i].
Postscript, p. [1]: "The profits, if any, of this book will be given to children's hospitals and convalescent homes for sick children: and the accounts, down to June 30 in each year, will be published in St. James's Gazette, on the second Tuesday of the following December"; followed by a verse by Longfellow.
"A Christmas gift to a dear child in memory of a summer day."--p. [4].
"An Easter greeting to every child who loves 'Alice.'"--p. [93].
"Christmas greetings (from a fairy to a child)"--p. [1] following main sequence.
Lacks publisher's advertisements following main sequence.
Housed in box made to look like a book, with stamped spine: "Alice's adventures under ground / Lewis Carroll / Presentation copy in presentation binding".
Description
viii, 95, [5] p., 2 p. of leaves : ill., facsim. ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in pen, half t.p.: "Minnie Fuller from the Author. Feb. 2/87".
Provenance
Minnie Fuller; bookplate of Frank Fletcher; from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Binding
Tan leather, gilt-stamped on covers and spine; all edges gilt.
Classification
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Department