first edition
1866 · London
by CARROLL, Lewis
London: MacMillan and Company, 1866. TENNIEL, Sir John. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [With:] Through the Looking Glass. London: MacMillan and Company, 1866.
Full Description:
CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: MacMillan and Company, 1866.
First published edition, with inverted "s" on the last line of the contents page. Octavo.
(7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 186x 123 mm.). [xii], [1]-192 pp. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel including frontispiece. With the original cloth binding bound in at the end. The original blue endpapers are also bound in at the end.
[Together with]
CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: MacMillan and Company, 1872.
First edition. Octavo. (7 x 4 3/4 inches; 176 x 120 mm.). [xii], [1]-224, [2] pp. With the misprint "wade" instead of "wabe" on page 21. Fifty illustrations by John Tenniel including frontispiece. Without the page of publisher's advertisements. With the original cloth binding bound in at the end.
Two volumes uniformly bound by Bayntum-Riviere in red morocco. Boards ruled in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a stamped in gilt with the white rabbit on the front board and Through the Looking Glass with the queen stamped in gilt on the front board. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Small closed tear to leaf B in volume I on lower margin, not affecting text. A small closed tear to Z2 in Volume I at fore-edge margin, not affecting text. Previous owner's old ink inscription dated 1866 on original endpapers. Previous owner's inscription dated 1871 on half-title of volume II. Overall a near fine set in a beuatiful binding. Housed together in a custom cloth slipcase.
This is the first authorized edition, often cited as the second edition and was published in November, 1865, (some say issues were ready as early as September 1865), preceding that of the New York 1866 edition by six months. "The first edition, familiarly known to book-collectors as 'the 1865 Alice', was printed at the Oxford University Press. This edition was at the last moment canceled by the author, for whom MacMillan's were publishing 'on commission' (i.e. as agent, not sponsors) because of what was considered the poor printing of Sir John Tenniel's almost equally famous illustrations. The few early copies sent out were recalled; seemingly with fair success, since less than a score are known to survive today. The book was then reprinted, by Clay, with the title-page re-dated 1866, and this constitutes the first regularly published edition" (Printing and the Mind of Man).
Williams, Madan and Green 44 and 84.
HBS 69110.
$15,000. (Inventory #: 69110)
Full Description:
CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: MacMillan and Company, 1866.
First published edition, with inverted "s" on the last line of the contents page. Octavo.
(7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 186x 123 mm.). [xii], [1]-192 pp. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel including frontispiece. With the original cloth binding bound in at the end. The original blue endpapers are also bound in at the end.
[Together with]
CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: MacMillan and Company, 1872.
First edition. Octavo. (7 x 4 3/4 inches; 176 x 120 mm.). [xii], [1]-224, [2] pp. With the misprint "wade" instead of "wabe" on page 21. Fifty illustrations by John Tenniel including frontispiece. Without the page of publisher's advertisements. With the original cloth binding bound in at the end.
Two volumes uniformly bound by Bayntum-Riviere in red morocco. Boards ruled in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a stamped in gilt with the white rabbit on the front board and Through the Looking Glass with the queen stamped in gilt on the front board. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Small closed tear to leaf B in volume I on lower margin, not affecting text. A small closed tear to Z2 in Volume I at fore-edge margin, not affecting text. Previous owner's old ink inscription dated 1866 on original endpapers. Previous owner's inscription dated 1871 on half-title of volume II. Overall a near fine set in a beuatiful binding. Housed together in a custom cloth slipcase.
This is the first authorized edition, often cited as the second edition and was published in November, 1865, (some say issues were ready as early as September 1865), preceding that of the New York 1866 edition by six months. "The first edition, familiarly known to book-collectors as 'the 1865 Alice', was printed at the Oxford University Press. This edition was at the last moment canceled by the author, for whom MacMillan's were publishing 'on commission' (i.e. as agent, not sponsors) because of what was considered the poor printing of Sir John Tenniel's almost equally famous illustrations. The few early copies sent out were recalled; seemingly with fair success, since less than a score are known to survive today. The book was then reprinted, by Clay, with the title-page re-dated 1866, and this constitutes the first regularly published edition" (Printing and the Mind of Man).
Williams, Madan and Green 44 and 84.
HBS 69110.
$15,000. (Inventory #: 69110)