A Query to Holders of the 1866 Edition of <i>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</i> Published in New York by D. Appleton and Co.

Previous articleNext article FreeBibliographical QueryA Query to Holders of the 1866 Edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Published in New York by D. Appleton and Co.PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWhen Macmillan and Co. printed the first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, it was promptly suppressed because the illustrator John Tenniel was dissatisfied with the quality of the illustrations. Forty-eight copies had been bound up for friends of Lewis Carroll, leaving 1,952 sets of sheets from the original print run of 2,000. These sheets were sold to the firm of D. Appleton and Co. in New York. They were bound in London with the Appleton title page as a cancel and published in 1866. Extant copies of what has come to be known as “The Appleton Alice” have turned out to be quite elusive. The British Library is the only institutional holder found in the UK. Some seventy institutional holders are found in the US and Canada and one in Switzerland. Fewer than twenty private holders have been identified.We have a new book in progress, with the working title “Much of a Muchness: The English Language Editions of the Four Alice books.” These are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Alice’s Adventures Under-Ground, and The Nursery “Alice.” In our new book we plan to include a census of holders of the 1866 Appleton Alice and which version each institution or person holds. It turns out that there are four versions of the book, with no priority.The suppressed sheets of the 1865 Macmillan Alice exist in two variant states, A and a. The differences in the 1865 sheets can be identified by the last stanza of the prefatory poem:variant A begins: Alice! A childishvariant a begins: Alice! a childishThe Appleton cancel title page was printed in duplicate, and the two states, 1 and 2, differ slightly:variant 1, the B in “By” on line 6 is directly above the T in “Tenniel”variant 2, the B is above and just to the right of the TCopies of each of the four versions have been located.If you have a copy of the 1866 Appleton Alice, please identify your variant as 1-A, 1-a, 2-A, or 2-a and respond to Jon Lindseth, at [email protected]. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Volume 111, Number 4December 2017 Published for the Bibliographical Society of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/694305 © 2017 by the Bibliographical Society of America. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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