Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/674
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    149 Lak 152 [Dodgson (C. L.)] Doublets, a Word Puzzle, Second Edition, original cloth, Macmillan and Co. 1880 [Dodgson (C. L.)] Alice’s Adventures under Ground, FIRST EDITION, tllustrations by the author, original cloth, g. e. Macmillan and Co., 1886 [Dodgson (C. L.)]| The Game of Logic, frontispiece, lacks envelope containing Diagram and Counters, original cloth Macmillan and Co., 1887 [| Dopeson (G. L.)] Sylvie and Bruno (and Sylvie and Bruno concluded), FIRST EDITIONS, 2 vol. tllustrations by Harry Furniss, original cloth, backs faded, g. e. Macmillan and Co., 1889-93 Dodgson (C. L.) Symbolic Logic, Part 1, FIRST EDITION, lacks the ship of correction, original cloth Macmillan and Co., 1896 * The above seven lots (Nos. 147-153) are presentation copies from the author, with autograph inscriptions on the half-title in each vol. Other Properties. OCTAVO ET INFRA. By Lewis Carotzt. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel, FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE (6 ll. unsigned ; B-N in eights), a few slight stains, orrginal red cloth gilt, slit at jounts and somewhat worn, g. e. in a slp case of red morocco gilt New York, D. Appleton and Co., 445, Broadway, 1866 E:XCEEDINGLY RARE. Mr. Williams in his Bibliography of Lewis Carroll has placed the facts about the first three issues of Alice in Wonderland beyond dispute, both as to the publishing of the first edition in England in 1865 and in America in 1866, and as to the complete re-setting of the second edition. Of the first issue, he has traced nine copies; of the second he says: “ As to the Appleton issue, I have only actually seen one copy, and that is in my possesion; and I have never heard of but three or four others.”—op. cit. p. 19. The binding exactly resembles that used for the Eng- lish editions of 1865 and 1866, except that “‘ Appleton & Co.” appears instead of “ Macmillan & Co.” at the foot of the back. On the recto of the frontispiece is the inscrip- ok ok sf Ww
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