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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll") 1832-1898. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. New York: D. Appleton, 1866.
8o (192 x 130 mm). With 42 illustrations by John Tenniel. Original red cloth, g.e. (spine very slightly darkened, very minor wear to spine ends and lower fore-corners, small ink spot on back cover, hinges tender); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Alice G. Howe (gift inscription recording an "anticipatory birthday present" from Eleanor Shattuck on half-title); Brooke House (light rubber stamp on front free endpaper verso).
FIRST EDITION, second (i.e., American) issue, comprising sheets of the suppressed 1865 printing of Alice with new title-page; the variant (no priority) with the "B" in "By" slightly to the right of the "T" in "Tenniel" on title-page and without the hyphen in "Rabbit-Hole" on the Contents page. "This second issue comprises those copies of the first edition still unbound when Lewis Carroll decided in July 1865 to cancel the edition. In 1866 the copies on hand were sold to Appleton and [1000] new title-pages were printed at Oxford, replacing the originals. The binding was evidently done in England, duplicating that for the first issue except in the substitution of Appleton's name for Macmillan at the foot of the spine and in the omission of a [Burn & Co.] binder's ticket. Textually the Appleton issue agrees with the Macmillan 1865, the only difference being the cancel title-page" (Robert N. Taylor, compiler, Lewis Carroll at Texas: The Warren Weaver Collection ... Austin: The University of Texas, [1985], no. 2). A VERY GOOD COPY. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 44.
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FIRST EDITION, second (i.e., American) issue, comprising sheets of the suppressed 1865 printing of Alice with new title-page; the variant (no priority) with the "B" in "By" slightly to the right of the "T" in "Tenniel" on title-page and without the hyphen in "Rabbit-Hole" on the Contents page. "This second issue comprises those copies of the first edition still unbound when Lewis Carroll decided in July 1865 to cancel the edition. In 1866 the copies on hand were sold to Appleton and [1000] new title-pages were printed at Oxford, replacing the originals. The binding was evidently done in England, duplicating that for the first issue except in the substitution of Appleton's name for Macmillan at the foot of the spine and in the omission of a [Burn & Co.] binder's ticket. Textually the Appleton issue agrees with the Macmillan 1865, the only difference being the cancel title-page" (Robert N. Taylor, compiler, Lewis Carroll at Texas: The Warren Weaver Collection ... Austin: The University of Texas, [1985], no. 2). A VERY GOOD COPY. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 44.