Accession number
PML 352465
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
London : Macmillan and Co., 1878.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
"Forty-sixth thousand"--Printing statement on title page.
The illustrations are engraved by the brothers Dalziel.
Second edition. Cf. Lovett & Lovett.
"The 44th thousand was the last thousand of the first edition, the second edition consisting of the 45th through the 56th thousands (1878-1887)"--Cf. Lovett & Lovett.
"This and the third edition use the electrotypes of the first edition; this has a reset chess diagram, replacing the Kings missing from the board since the 25th thousand"--Cf. Williams & Madan.
Publisher's advertisements ([1] page) at end.
Richard Clay's printing device as colophon.
Library's copy housed in 1/4 red morocco over cloth slipcase with matching cloth chemise.
The illustrations are engraved by the brothers Dalziel.
Second edition. Cf. Lovett & Lovett.
"The 44th thousand was the last thousand of the first edition, the second edition consisting of the 45th through the 56th thousands (1878-1887)"--Cf. Lovett & Lovett.
"This and the third edition use the electrotypes of the first edition; this has a reset chess diagram, replacing the Kings missing from the board since the 25th thousand"--Cf. Williams & Madan.
Publisher's advertisements ([1] page) at end.
Richard Clay's printing device as colophon.
Library's copy housed in 1/4 red morocco over cloth slipcase with matching cloth chemise.
Description
[12], 224, [1] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in purple ink on half title page: Miss E. Gertrude Thomson, with the Author's kind regards, Feb. 12. 1879.
Provenance
Inscribed to E. Gertrude Thomson; from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Binding
Full white calf 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; edges gilded; with black endpapers. Plain cream dust jacket.
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