18 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York: D. Appleton, 1866 the first practicably obtainable issue of the original sheets First edition, second issue, comprising sheets of the suppressed 1865 printing of Alice with the Appleton cancel title page. The issue consisted of 1,000 copies, using the first printing sheets but with new tipped-in title pages also printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford. Dodgson authorized the sale to America on 10 April 1866 and was invoiced for the printing of the American title pages on 26 May. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, triple gilt rules to covers, gilt roundels with “Alice” motifs to covers, dark green endpapers, edges gilt. Housed in a custom red cloth flat-back box. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel. Provenance: S. H. W[illiams] of Inner Temple with bookplate on front pastedown of both book and box. A little wear to spine ends and corners, a couple of light marks to cloth, tiny spot of abrasion to front free endpaper, front hinge split but holding, rear hinge partly split, but text block sound. An excellent copy in bright cloth. ¶ Printing and the Mind of Man 354 (the first issue); Robert Taylor, Lewis Carroll at Texas: The Warren Weaver Collection , 1985, no. 2; Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 44. £37,500 [116108] 19 CARROLL, Lewis. The Nursery Alice. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890 One of 100 copies inscribed by the author Second edition (the first published in the UK), first issue, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “For Olive, from the Author. Mar. 25, 1890”. The recipient was Olive Augusta Langton Clarke who Carroll met in September 1883. Her father was both a clergyman and an inventor, and a close friend of the author. The original idea for a simplified version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland came to Lewis Carroll in 1881. He conceived a book with simplified text and pictures printed in colour. In 1886 the book was announced as being in preparation. The first edition was printed in 1889 and Carroll, mirroring his behaviour over the original publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, rejected the printing with the complaint that the illustrations were “far too bright and gaudy”. The rejected sheets would eventually be issued in the US in 1890 (and then in the UK in 1891 and 1897). The second edition, published in 1890, was therefore the first published edition and on 25 March 1890 Carroll inscribed around 100 presentation copies, having recorded the names and (mostly) addresses of recipients in an exercise book. Describing the new printing Carroll stated that “it is a great success” ( Diaries , p. 506). The most notable alteration between the two editions is the printing of the sheets on white rather than toned paper and the change to the illustration of “Alice and the Cheshire Cat” on p. 34, removing Alice’s profile. The first issue has “Price four shillings” above the imprint. Williams, Madan, Green, and Crutch call for “an inserted printed slip advertising Sylvie and Bruno” which is frequently missing, but present here.
Carroll records Olive Langton Clarke as entry number 45 in his list of presentation copies. She is listed as living at 25 Clarendon Square, Leamington. Carroll first met the Clarkes at Whitburn in October 1864. James Langton Clarke (1833–1916) attended University College, Durham (obtaining a BA in 1856 and MA 1857). He was a curate of Whitburn 1858–60, and afterwards curate at Leamington from 1885. Given this gap, it is assumed that he had some independent means. In 1857 he married Frances Mary Harrison (b. 1835), daughter of the railway engineer Thomas Elliott Harrison, and the couple had 14 children. Olive Augusta was the youngest and born in 1880. In 1904, James Langton Clarke published The Eternal Saviour-Judge . He was also an inventor. The Langton Clarkes were friends of the Wilcoxes (related to Carroll), and James Langton Clarke officiated at the christening of Mary Dorothea Wilcox in October 1859. A collection of photographs taken by Carroll of the Langton Clarkes is now at the Chicago Art Institute. Provenance: Sotheby’s, 25–27 July 1927, lot 571; Quaritch; Thomas and Jania Erwin. Tall octavo. Original white cloth-backed white glazed pictorial boards designed by E. Gertrude Thomson, front cover lettered in red and black. Printed slip advertising Sylvie and Bruno loosely inserted. Housed in a custom red linen chemise and red cloth slipcase by James Macdonald (of New York). Colour frontispiece with tissue guard and 19 colour illustrations after John Tenniel. Book label of Thomas and Jania Erwin on front pastedown. Binding somewhat worn and soiled with extremities worn, some abrasions to rear cover, some light finger- soiling; else a good and attractive copy. ¶ Williams-Madan-Green- Crutch 216. Edward Wakeling, ed., Lewis Carroll’s Diaries , Vol. 8., 2004. £8,500 [151897] 20 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to The Medici Society; Riccardi Press edition, number 4 of 10 copies printed on vellum. A further 1,000 copies were printed on paper. The Press was founded by Herbert P. Horne, who designed the typeface. It began to be used as the imprint for Medici Society publications in 1909. Will Ransom notes in Private Presses and their Books that the vellum copies issued by the Riccardi Press were “bound in limp Kelmscott vellum”. The dust jacket on this copy is a remarkable survival. As a plain dust jacket using low-grade brown paper with flaps (which are roughly cut) it might be seen as a protective covering supplied by the binder rather than a publisher’s jacket. Alternatively, this may be an addition by an early owner. The spine of the jacket has lettering added by hand. Quarto. Original limp vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, green silk ties. With plain dust jacket. Housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase. Illustrations by John Tenniel. Some very light browning; a fine copy which is bright and clean. Dust jacket worn with loss and tears. ¶ Ransom Riccardi Press 12. £15,000 [152895] Riccardi Press Books, 1914 Printed on vellum
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