Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles

Overview:

  • Title: Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles
  • Author: Lewis Carroll
  • Year: 1869
  • Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
  • Price: 6/-
  • Pages: [5]+196
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles
  • Notes:
    • Translated by Henri BuĂ©
    • Interior artwork is frontispiece plus 42 illustrations by Tenniel ("vignettes", none full-page?) (42 is the announced number of illustrations in the original.)
    • 183 x 123 mm.
    • Data from Christie's Auction House and library records.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy without original cover (linked by Library of Congress, LCCN; examined only to establish the following points). -- t.p. verso: bracketed, untitled note on the translation -- next four pages: the opening dedicatory poem (5th-6th of 7 preliminary leaves, of which the first is blank)
    • Price from publisher advertisement The Athenaeum 1869-12-18 #2199 p805 "Macmillan & Co.'s Christmas Books"; quote this listing in full:   Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.   By Lewis Carroll. Nineteenth Thousand. Crown 8vo. with 42 Illustrations by Tenniel, cloth gilt, 6s. The same in French and German, each 6s.
    • Reviewed with the German edition in The Spectator 1869-08-07 p933-34 "Alice Translated" (unsigned, long, illustrative, positive)