1893, ISBN: 9319445621

Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe

Hardcover, Signed by Author(s), [ED: 1], LITERATURE, First editions. 8vo. Frontispiece and forty five illustrations by Harry Furniss; 5 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Full gi… Mehr…

Hardcover, Signed by Author(s), [ED: 1], LITERATURE, First editions. 8vo. Frontispiece and forty five illustrations by Harry Furniss; 5 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Full gilt stamped red morocco by Scroll Club, spines with raised bands, gilt ruled edges, gilt ruled inner dentelles, a.e.g. (with original cloth bound in). Very good-fine. Later black cloth slipcase. Both signed and inscribed by Carroll on half-title pages to Alice Wilson Fox. The first in purple ink; the second in black ink. "Sylvie and Bruno": "Alice Wilson Fox from her old friend the Author. Jan. 8, 1890." "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded": "Alice Wilson Fox, with the Author's affectionate regards. Dec. 27, 1893." Alice Raikes (later Mrs. Wilson-Fox) was the daughter of Lewis Carroll's cousin, and may have been the inspiration for Carroll's "Alice" character (see the entry in Lewis Carroll's diary for August 17, 1868, wherein Lewis records his visit with Alice Raikes and the further development of "Through the Looking Glass"). The editor, Roger L. Green, comments after this entry: "It was probably during this stay in the house at Onslow Square that a chance meeting with his little cousin Alice Raikes helped Dodgson to the additional realization of the peculiarities of 'Looking-Glass House, ' which gave still greater verisimilitude to the new 'Wonderland' which he was then inventing for his own dream-child."., [PU: London, Macmillan, 1889 & London, Macmillan, 1893.]<

1893, ISBN: 9319445621

Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe

Hardcover, Signed by Author(s), [ED: 1], LITERATURE, First editions. 8vo. Frontispiece and forty five illustrations by Harry Furniss; 5 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Full gi… Mehr…

Hardcover, Signed by Author(s), [ED: 1], LITERATURE, First editions. 8vo. Frontispiece and forty five illustrations by Harry Furniss; 5 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Full gilt stamped red morocco by Scroll Club, spines with raised bands, gilt ruled edges, gilt ruled inner dentelles, a.e.g. (with original cloth bound in). Very good-fine. Later black cloth slipcase. Both signed and inscribed by Carroll on half-title pages to Alice Wilson Fox. The first in purple ink; the second in black ink. "Sylvie and Bruno": "Alice Wilson Fox from her old friend the Author. Jan. 8, 1890." "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded": "Alice Wilson Fox, with the Author's affectionate regards. Dec. 27, 1893." Alice Raikes (later Mrs. Wilson-Fox) was the daughter of Lewis Carroll's cousin, and may have been the inspiration for Carroll's "Alice" character (see the entry in Lewis Carroll's diary for August 17, 1868, wherein Lewis records his visit with Alice Raikes and the further development of "Through the Looking Glass"). The editor, Roger L. Green, comments after this entry: "It was probably during this stay in the house at Onslow Square that a chance meeting with his little cousin Alice Raikes helped Dodgson to the additional realization of the peculiarities of 'Looking-Glass House, ' which gave still greater verisimilitude to the new 'Wonderland' which he was then inventing for his own dream-child."., [PU: London, Macmillan, 1889 & London, Macmillan, 1893.]<