APPLETON'S ALICE. DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE (LEWIS CARROLL). 1832-1898. Alices Adventures in Wo...

APPLETON'S ALICE. DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE (LEWIS CARROLL). 1832-1898. Alices Adventures in Wonderland. New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1866. 8vo. LACKING 10 PAGES (5 leaves), two pages remargined, some recornered. Illustrations by John Tenniel. Publisher's cloth covers, triple-rule border in gilt, with gilt Alice ornament to upper cover, rebacked and recornered in red cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt. Soiling to cloth. FIRST EDITION, AMERICAN ISSUE, OF CARROLL'S CLASSIC, comprising the sheets of the suppressed British first edition, with Appleton's cancel title page. The publishing history of the 'Appleton Alice' is one of the most famous in publishing history. When the first edition was printed at the Clarendon Press at Oxford, illustrator John Tenniel protested the quality of the illustrations, causing Carroll to cancel the edition, and reprint, at great expense to the author himself. He had already sent out 50 copies, but in April 1866 Appleton contacted Macmillan to arrange for copies to be sold in America. Macmillan proposed to Carroll sending the original sheets, and Carroll and then Tenniel both agreed. In May 1866, the first American edition of Alice appeared, using the original British sheets bound up with a new Appleton title page. Carroll's fantasy was 'unique among 'juveniles' in appealing equally if not more strongly to adults ... they abound in characters — the White Knight, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty — who are a part of everybody's mental furniture. And the philosophic profundity of scores, if not hundreds, of these characters' observations, long household words wherever English is spoken, gains mightily from the delicious fantasy of their setting' (PMM 354, citing the 1865 edition). Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 46. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing