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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll') (1832-1898). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . New York: [Clarendon Press for] D. Appleton, 1866.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll') (1832-1898). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . New York: [Clarendon Press for] D. Appleton, 1866. The first American edition, also known as the ‘Appleton Alice’, which consist of the sheets of the very rare, suppressed first edition of 1865. 8vo (190 x 127mm). 42 illustrations after John Tenniel Original red cloth, the sides centred with a gilt ornament and with a gilt triple fillet border, the spine lettered in gilt, edges gilt (neatly re-cased and with repairs at the spine ends, endpapers renewed); in a custom buckram clamshell case. Provenance : John Philip Sherwood (faded signature on the verso of the frontispiece). The ‘Appleton Alice’ is, technically speaking, a first edition, second (i.e. American re-) issue, comprising sheets of the suppressed 1865 first printing of Alice but with new title-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' ( Lewis Carroll at Texas , no. 2). This copy is from the variant (no priority) with the ‘B’ in ‘By’ aligned between the ‘T’ and ‘E’ of ‘Tenniel’ on the title-page, and with the hyphen in ‘Rabbit-Hole on the Contents leaf. PMM 354 (the first issue); Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 44.