Accession number
PML 352543
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
Leipzig : Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, [1869] (Leipzig : Druck von Breitkopf und Härtel)
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
First German edition, second issue. Cf. Lovett & Lovett.
Translation of Alice's adventures in Wonderland.
"Druck von Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig"--Page 178.
Library's copy housed in 1/4 red morocco over cloth slipcase with matching cloth chemise.
Translation of Alice's adventures in Wonderland.
"Druck von Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig"--Page 178.
Library's copy housed in 1/4 red morocco over cloth slipcase with matching cloth chemise.
Description
[12], 178 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signature in pencil on bookplate: N. Egerton Leigh; inscription in ink on verso of front flyleaf: Edith Anne Greene, from her loving mother, Christmas 1871.
Provenance
Inscribed to and bookplate of Edith Anne Greene; N. Egerton Leigh; from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Binding
Original yellow-green cloth stamped in gilt on spine and covers; front cover has vignette of Alice holding the Duchess's baby pig in gilt, rear cover has Cheshire Cat vignette in gilt; edges gilded; brown endpapers. "Macmillan" stamped in gilt on spine. Bound by Burn & Co. with their ticket.
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