Accession number
PML 352046
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
London : Macmillan and Co., 1878.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
"Fifty-eighth thousand".
"[The right of translation and reproduction is reserved.]"
Publisher's device on verso of half-title page.
Printer's device on t.p. verso.
"R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, printers, London"--Bottom of page 192.
Publisher's advertisements, p. [2] following main sequence.
Housed in a red cloth four-fold cover inside a 1/4 red morocco and red cloth slipcase. Spine on slipcase reads: "Presentation copy to Miss Thomson".
E. Gertrude Thomson illustrated some of Lewis Carroll's books, and designed the cover for The nursery Alice.
"[The right of translation and reproduction is reserved.]"
Publisher's device on verso of half-title page.
Printer's device on t.p. verso.
"R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, printers, London"--Bottom of page 192.
Publisher's advertisements, p. [2] following main sequence.
Housed in a red cloth four-fold cover inside a 1/4 red morocco and red cloth slipcase. Spine on slipcase reads: "Presentation copy to Miss Thomson".
E. Gertrude Thomson illustrated some of Lewis Carroll's books, and designed the cover for The nursery Alice.
Description
[xii], 192, [2] p. : ill. ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the author in ink, half-title page: "Miss E. Gertrude Thomson with the author's kind regards, Feb. 12, 1879".
Provenance
E. Gertrude Thomson; from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Binding
Cream leather tooled in gilt; front cover has vignette of Alice holding the Duchess's baby pig, back cover shows the Cheshire cat. All edges gilt.
Classification
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