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Variant 1 of the t.p.; Variant “A” of the second
preliminary gathering.
Dark red smooth cloth, blocked in gold as the
1866 English edition. A.e.g. Black endpapers.
12. ———. By Lewis Carroll. With Forty-two
Illustrations by John Tenniel. Boston: Lee and
Shepard, 1869.
[9], 192 p. Front., illus. 19 cm.
Dark green pebble cloth, blocked in gold as
the 1866 English edition, but with publisher’s
monogram in gold at foot of spine. A.e.g.
13. Copy 2.
Dark reddish orange pebble cloth; otherwise
as Copy 1.
With a copy of Our Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No.
120, April 17, 1869, containing a full-page illustrated
advert. for this edition.
14. ———. By Lewis Carroll. With Forty-two
Illustrations by John Tenniel. Fourteenth
Thousand. London: Macmillan and Co., 1869.
[9], 192 p. Front., illus. 19 cm.
Dark red smooth cloth, blocked in gold as the
1866 English edition. A.e.g.
Inscribed on halftitle: Coventry Patmore Esq
The Mansion Hastings.
15. ———. By Lewis Carroll. With Forty-two
Illustrations by John Tenniel. Boston: Lee and
Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham,
1871.
[9], 192 p. Front., illus. 19 cm.
Dark green pebble cloth, blocked as the 1866
English edition, but with only the circular cut
on front cover and the ornament on spine in
gold, the rest in blind, and with the publisher’s
monogram in gold at foot of spine. Edges
stained reddish brown.
16. Copy 2.
Dark reddish orange pebble cloth, blocked in
gold as the 1866 English edition, but with an
elaborate ornamental border in place of the triple
rule border, and with the spine elaborately
blocked in gold. A.e.g.
C. L. Dodgson
nos. 11–20
17. ———. By Lewis Carroll. With Forty-two Illustrations
by John Tenniel. Fifty-fifth Thousand.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1877.
[9], 192 p. Front., illus. 19 cm.
Dark red smooth cloth, blocked in gold as the
1866 English edition. A.e.g.
Advert., [2] p. at back.
Inscribed in purple ink on halftitle: Edith Rose
Blakemore from the Author Sep. 11. 1877.
18. Copy 2.
The title leaf is a cancel, pasted on a stub.
Blocked in blind on front cover and printed at
head of title: Presented for the Use of Sick Children.
Dark red sand cloth, blocked as above but in
blind. Sprinkled edges.
No advert.
Stamped on halftitle: Presented by the Author,
for the use of sick children, July, 1890.
19. ———. By Lewis Carroll. With Forty-two
Illustrations by John Tenniel. Fifty-eighth
Thousand. London: Macmillan and Co., 1878.
[9], 192 p. Front., illus. 18.5 cm.
White parchment paper boards, textured and
with a soft leathery finish, blocked in gold as
the 1866 English edition. A.e.g.
Advert., [2] p. at back.
Inserted at front, following halftitle, is a onepage
“Advertisement,” signed Lewis Carroll,
dated Christmas, 1893, in which the author
regrets the imperfect printing of the pictures
in the Sixtieth Thousand issue of Through the
Looking-Glass, invites holders of such copies to
exchange them for better ones, and announces
his intention to give the imperfect copies to
needy institutions.
Inscribed in purple ink on halftitle: Helen Melville
Standen from the Author. Ap. 9. 1884.
20. ———. By Lewis Carroll. With Forty-two
Illustrations by John Tenniel. Sixty-fourth
Thousand. London: Macmillan and Co., 1880.
[9], 192 p. Front., illus. 18.5 cm.
Dark red smooth cloth, blocked in gold as the