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The Lewis Carroll Picture Book: A Selection from the Unpublished Writings and Drawings of Lewis Carroll, Together with Reprints from Scarce and Unacknowledged Work.
by Carroll, Lewis; Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson (Editor)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Rapid River, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Paternoster Row, London: T. Fisher Unwin , 1899. Dated in Roman numerals at title page: "MDCCCXCIX," or 1899. Large thick volume of substance over two lbs. Brick red full cloth boards with rounded or beveled effect, gilt cover and spine design, titles, moderate shelf wear, spine chip, discoloration. Front cover with intriguing design of the Wonderland griffin and the white rabbit. Front blank endpaper removed. Pages generally good; few with moderate fox. Frontispiece monochrome plate of Lewis Carroll writing. Illustrated throughout with full and partial-page designs and photographs by both Lewis Carroll himself and John Tennial who created the first popular imagery for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. String-bind good, square; few places starting. Solid, intriguing first edition. Fascinating collection, includes: "Alice on the Stage"; "The Vision of the Three Ts"; "The Blank Cheque"; "The New Belfry of Christ Church, Oxford and Isa's Visit to Oxford. Other illiustrations include photos by Lewis Carroll. The first part is the first publication of Dodgson's manuscript notebook of "Alice" and the second is an intriguing compendium of Carroliana. 375 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by Carroll, Lewis; Tennial, John . 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
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- Bookseller
- BiblioStax
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021996
- Title
- The Lewis Carroll Picture Book: A Selection from the Unpublished Writings and Drawings of Lewis Carroll, Together with Reprints from Scarce and Unacknowledged Work.
- Author
- Carroll, Lewis; Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson (Editor)
- Illustrator
- Carroll, Lewis; Tennial, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- T. Fisher Unwin
- Place of Publication
- Paternoster Row, London
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Rapid River, Michigan
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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