Alice in Wonderland, first edition, second issue
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Author: Carroll, Lewis
Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Place Published: New York
Publisher:D. Appleton
Date Published: 1866 [1865]
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[8], 192 pp. Lacking half-title page. Frontispiece and wood-engraved illustrations after John Tenniel. (8vo) 18.6x12.3 cm (7¼x4¾"), early rebinding by Krumin in half-morocco over marbled boards, tooled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, all edges stained red. First Edition, second issue. One of 1000 copies with the cancel title.
Carroll published Alice in Wonderland with Macmillan in London in 1865. However, John Tenniel was deeply dissatisfied with the printing of the illustrations and convinced Carroll to suppress the book at his own expense. Only about 20 copies of this 1865 Macmillan first issue survive, most in institutional collections. Rather than discard the remaining sheets they were sold to D. Appleton in New York and 1000 new title pages were printed and tipped in. Tenniel agreed that the illustrations would be passable for an American audience. Thus the present is the first issue to the public of the text--one of the most important children's books ever written. This copy has the B in "By" above the T in "Tenniel" on title page and the hyphen in "Rabbit-Hole" on contents page.
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