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Auction archive: Lot number 284

DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll", 1832-1898). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. New York: D. Appleton, 1866.

Auction 24.05.2002
24 May 2002
Estimate
US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$14,340
Auction archive: Lot number 284

DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll", 1832-1898). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. New York: D. Appleton, 1866.

Auction 24.05.2002
24 May 2002
Estimate
US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$14,340
Beschreibung:

DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll", 1832-1898). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. New York: D. Appleton, 1866. 8 o. With 42 illustrations by John Tenniel. Original red cloth, gilt-stamped, spine gilt-lettered, edges gilt (light wear to spine ends, some staining to covers and spine, hinges tender); quarter morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, second (i.e., the American re-) issue, comprising sheets of the suppressed 1865 printing of Alice with new title-page; the variant (no priority) with the "B" in "By" above the "T" in "Tenniel" on title-page and with the hyphen in "Rabbit-Hole" on 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" ( Lewis Carroll at Texas ). Robert N. Taylor, compiler, Lewis Carroll at Texas: The Warren Weaver Collection... Austin: The University of Texas, [1985], no. 2; PMM 354 (the first issue); Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 44.

Auction archive: Lot number 284
Auction:
Datum:
24 May 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll", 1832-1898). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. New York: D. Appleton, 1866. 8 o. With 42 illustrations by John Tenniel. Original red cloth, gilt-stamped, spine gilt-lettered, edges gilt (light wear to spine ends, some staining to covers and spine, hinges tender); quarter morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, second (i.e., the American re-) issue, comprising sheets of the suppressed 1865 printing of Alice with new title-page; the variant (no priority) with the "B" in "By" above the "T" in "Tenniel" on title-page and with the hyphen in "Rabbit-Hole" on 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" ( Lewis Carroll at Texas ). Robert N. Taylor, compiler, Lewis Carroll at Texas: The Warren Weaver Collection... Austin: The University of Texas, [1985], no. 2; PMM 354 (the first issue); Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 44.

Auction archive: Lot number 284
Auction:
Datum:
24 May 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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