Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles.

Carroll (Lewis, pseud. for Charles L. Dodgson)

Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles.

Traduit de l'Anglais par Henri Bué...

Description: FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, frontispiece (with tissue guard) and vignette illustrations by Tenniel, pp. [xii], 196, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, by Burn, with his diamond ticket on lower pastedown, backstrip gilt lettered direct, boards with triple gilt border, and central illustration (Alice and pig on upper; Cheshire cat on lower) within circular triple line frame, a little rubbing and light bumps to extremities, some light wear at backstrip ends, a.e.g., chocolate chalked endpapers, the flyleaf chipped at top corner, cracking to rear hinge with webbing exposed, good

Publication Details: Macmillan, 1869

Notes: Inscribed by the Dodgson on the half-title: 'Beatrice Cecilia Harington, from the Author'. The recipient was the eldest daughter of Richard Harington, Principal of Brasenose College and his second wife, Mary; her half-brother (also Richard) was a Christ Church contemporary and friend of Dodgson, who had translated a poem by the latter into Latin for the Daniel Press 'Garland of Rachel'. Beatrice, like her sister (Alice Margaret), was among Dodgson's child-sitters; she was seventeen years of age at the time this translation (which followed the German in the same year as the earliest translatio...moreInscribed by the Dodgson on the half-title: 'Beatrice Cecilia Harington, from the Author'. The recipient was the eldest daughter of Richard Harington, Principal of Brasenose College and his second wife, Mary; her half-brother (also Richard) was a Christ Church contemporary and friend of Dodgson, who had translated a poem by the latter into Latin for the Daniel Press 'Garland of Rachel'. Beatrice, like her sister (Alice Margaret), was among Dodgson's child-sitters; she was seventeen years of age at the time this translation (which followed the German in the same year as the earliest translations of Carroll's chef d'oeuvre) - Harington was later the first Head of St. Margaret's House, Bethnal Green. HIDE

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Price: £12,500

Subject: Literature

Published Date: 1869

Stock Number: 73925

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