Accession number
PML 352457
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
London : Macmillan and Co., 1872.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
The illustrations are engraved by the brothers Dalziel.
First edition, with printer's error on page 21, "wabe" spelt incorrectly as "wade," with both pages 95 & 98 are unnumbered. Cf. Lovett & Lovett.
Publisher's advertisements ([1] page) at end.
Richard Clay's printing device as colophon.
"Macmillan" in gilt on spine.
Library's copy housed in crimson cloth clamshell box.
First edition, with printer's error on page 21, "wabe" spelt incorrectly as "wade," with both pages 95 & 98 are unnumbered. Cf. Lovett & Lovett.
Publisher's advertisements ([1] page) at end.
Richard Clay's printing device as colophon.
"Macmillan" in gilt on spine.
Library's copy housed in crimson cloth clamshell box.
Description
[12], 224, [1] pages ; illustrations : 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on half title page: Elizabeth Lucy Dodgson, with the Author's best love. Christmas. 1871.
Provenance
Inscribed to Elizabeth Lucy Dodgson; from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Binding
Crimson cloth bound by Burn & Co. with their ticket; with pictorial vignettes of the Queen of Hearts and the White Queen in gilt on covers; stamped in gilt on spine. Blue-black endpapers and edges gilded.
Classification
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