Details

Illustrator

• Tenniel, John, 1820-1914 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Gilbert, H.M. (Henry March) [Browse]

Former owner

• Gilbert, Edward H. (Edward Hooker), 1859-1921 [Browse]
• Behrman, Howard T. (Howard Taft), 1912- [Browse]

Publisher

• Macmillan & Co. [Browse]

Engraver

• Dalziel Brothers [Browse]

Binder

• Riviere & Son [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

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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