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Alice's adventures in Wonderland / by Lewis Carroll ; with forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel.
Author
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Macmillan and Co., 1866.
Description
[10], 192 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. (wood-engravings) ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Availability
Available Online
Commentary
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Call Number
Status
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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library
27693 Eng 19
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Princeton copy 2
Special Collections - Morris L. Parrish Collection
Dodgson 10
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Princeton copy 3
Special Collections - Morris L. Parrish Collection
Dodgson 9
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19th-157 RHT
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Princeton copy 1
Details
Illustrator
Tenniel, John, 1820-1914
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Bookseller
Gilbert, H.M. (Henry March)
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Former owner
Gilbert, Edward H. (Edward Hooker), 1859-1921
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Behrman, Howard T. (Howard Taft), 1912-
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Publisher
Macmillan & Co.
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Engraver
Dalziel Brothers
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Binder
Riviere & Son
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Fiction
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Notes
First edition, preceeded only by the recalled first printing of 1865.
Half t.p. line-breaks: "Alice's Adventures / In Wonderland" (cf. the Appleton 1866 t.p.).
Illustrations: Engraved frontis. and illustrations throughout the text, signed with Tenniel's stylized monogram and also by Dalziel; letterpress tailpiece decorations, using asterisks, at the end of some chapters and sections.
Binding note
Princeton copy 1: In case with: Through the looking-glass / Lewis Carroll. -- London : Macmillan, 1872.
Princeton copy 2: (Cotsen): Half polished red calf, with gilt-stamped decorative pattern on spine and gilt-stamped title on black morocco spine label; blue marbled boards with matching endpapers and edges.
Princeton copy 3: (Dodgson 10): Red morocco, with polychrome morocco onlay vignette on front cover; marbled endpapers; original cloth sides and spine bound in at end; bound by Bayntun (Riviere), Bath, England.
Princeton copy 1: (RHT): In publisher's red smooth cloth with dark grayish blue endpapers; in red morocco pull-off case.
Princeton copy 3: (Dodgson 10) Dark red morocco, gilt, with the White Rabbit on front cover, by Bayntun/Riviere, original covers bound in. A.e.g. Bookplate of Dr. & Mrs. Howard T. Behrman.
Princeton copy 4: (Dodgson 9): Dark red smooth cloth, blocked in gold as the1865 edition but with an ornament blocked in gold below the title on the spine. A.e.g. Bluish gray endpapers.
Provenance
Princeton copy 2: "H.M. Gilbert, New & Old Book Store, 37 Bernard Street, Southampton"--Bookseller's ticket on from pastedown.
Princeton copy 2: Inscribed on half-title in pencil: "Miss Darwin, Down, Bromley, Kent".
Princeton copy 2: (Cotsen): Darwin family. Association Copy belonging to the eldest of Charles and Emma Darwin's four daughters.
Princeton copy 4: (Dodgson 9): The author’s own copy, with his monogram,CLD, inscribed on halftitle, and with thirty seven suggested corrections in his hand on back free endpaper.
Princeton copy 3: (Dodgson 10): Bequest of Dr. Howard T. Behrman.
Princeton copy 1: (RHT): Bookplate of Edward Hooker Gilbert.
References
Williams & Madan. Lewis Carroll, 1979, 46
Wainwright (Parrish), Dodgson, 9-10
LCCN
30004663
OCLC
1960661
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