Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll. Second (first published) edition. London: (Richard Clay for) Macmillan and Co., 1866.
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Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, triple gilt rules to covers, triple ruled gilt, gilt roundels with “Alice” motifs to covers, green coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom red linen chemise and quarter morocco slipcase.
Second (first published) edition, with the inverted “S” in the last line of the Contents page. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was originally printed in Oxford at the Clarendon Press in June 1865. On 19 July 1865, Dodgson heard that the book’s illustrator John Tenniel was dissatisfied with the quality of the printing, so decided to suppress the whole edition of 2,000 copies. He recalled the few pre-publication copies he had sent out to his friends and donated them to hospitals, where most perished. Only 23 of those original “1865 Alices” are now extant, mostly in institutional holdings, thus creating one of the most famous black tulips of book collecting.
The book was entirely reset by Richard Clay for this authorized Macmillan edition which, although dated 1866, was in fact ready by November 1865, in time for the Christmas market. The unused Oxford sheets were sold to Appleton’s for use in their New York edition, published the following summer. The Macmillan edition was published in an edition of 4,000 copies.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll. Second (first published) edition, 1866. [ Ссылка ]
