CARROLL, LEWIS.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

New York D. Appleton and Co. 1866 Octavo. (v) ff., 192 pp. First edition, second issue. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. Alice was originally issued in 1865 by Macmillan and Company of London, but Carroll and Tenniel were unhappy with the print quality of the illustrations and canceled the issue, insisting that the book be reprinted. Few copies of that first issue were ever released; fewer still are known to exist today. Many of the sheets had yet to be bound when Carrol suppressed the edition, and the unbound sheets were sold to Appleton with a new title-page that reflected the change of publisher. Appleton's version of the book, then, is actually the 1865 suppressed edition, with a different title-page. Subsequently, Macmillan issued its second edition of Alice, with re-set type and reprinted illustrations. Alice was an immediate sensation. Copies of the book were avidly read by their young owners, and tend to show some wear as a result. This copy is bound in full red calf, possibly by Riviere and Son, with triple gilt rule on both covers, gilt dentelles, and marbled endpapers. Spine richly gilt in six compartments, with leather labels in two compartments, lettered in gilt. Original endpapers and red cloth binding bound-in following the text. Rear board bears a faint, three and one-half inch mark, spine lightly faded. Pages uniformly toned throughout as expected, some leaves with unobtrusive marks of soiling, few professionally repaired marginal tears, very faint owner's inscription, else fine. A.e.g. (Ray English 185A; Carroll Handbook [1979] 44; Williams 9; see Printing and the Mind of Man 354).

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