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[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll")]. FREILIGRATH-KROEKER, Kate. Alice and Other Fairy Plays for Children. London: W. Swan Sonnenschein and Allen, 1880.
8o. Alice text pp. 1-64, + 4 pages of music: "Speak Roughly" and "Beautiful Soup." 8 plates and 4 vignettes by Mary Sibree (including two plates and one vignette for "Alice"). Original publisher's pictorial gray bevelled cloth gilt, edges gilt (minor wear to extremities, some light soiling); quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST DRAMATIZED VERSION OF "ALICE". The first, of many, dramatic adaptations of Alice, also the first version to appear with non-Tenniel plates. The author presented a copy to Carroll, which he returned with a note "I may candidly confess, it would be a much higher gratification to me to possess a copy given to me by the author, with my name written in it in her own hand..." Freiligrath-Kroeker later published Alice Through the Looking-Glass and Other Fairy Plays for Children in 1882. It is known that Carroll attended a performance of the play in 1889. See Letters, ed. by Morton N. Cohen, New York, 1979, p. 353.
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FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST DRAMATIZED VERSION OF "ALICE". The first, of many, dramatic adaptations of Alice, also the first version to appear with non-Tenniel plates. The author presented a copy to Carroll, which he returned with a note "I may candidly confess, it would be a much higher gratification to me to possess a copy given to me by the author, with my name written in it in her own hand..." Freiligrath-Kroeker later published Alice Through the Looking-Glass and Other Fairy Plays for Children in 1882. It is known that Carroll attended a performance of the play in 1889. See Letters, ed. by Morton N. Cohen, New York, 1979, p. 353.