Accession number
PML 352306
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
London : Macmillan and Co., 1876.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
"London : R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, Printers, Bread Street Hill"--T.p. verso.
Includes An Easter greeting to every child who loves "Alice" (Williams, Madan & Green. Lewis Carroll Handbook (1979 ed.), 116 [90], p. 92), affixed to recto of frontispiece. According to the Handbook, when this book was issued the leaflets were loosely laid in; evidently either Carroll, Ms. Brown, or an unknown person affixed it.
According to Williams, Madan & Green, this red binding stamped in gold is one of 100 such bound especially for Carroll.
Library's copy housed in red cloth clamshell box.
Includes An Easter greeting to every child who loves "Alice" (Williams, Madan & Green. Lewis Carroll Handbook (1979 ed.), 116 [90], p. 92), affixed to recto of frontispiece. According to the Handbook, when this book was issued the leaflets were loosely laid in; evidently either Carroll, Ms. Brown, or an unknown person affixed it.
According to Williams, Madan & Green, this red binding stamped in gold is one of 100 such bound especially for Carroll.
Library's copy housed in red cloth clamshell box.
Description
xi, 83, [1] p. : ill. ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
"Mary Suter Brown from the author"--In brown pen on half-title page.
Provenance
Mary Suter Brown; from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Binding
Bound in pictorial red cloth stamped in gold; all edges gilt.
Classification
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