739 [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, with Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel, 1st American edition, New York: D. Appleton, 1866, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations to text, hinges cracked, all edges gilt, original red cloth gilt, a little rubbed, darkened and soiled, minor fraying to extremities, 8vo, contained in purpose-made red cloth gilt matching book box with “(A)” inked onto spine, a little soiled, faded and frayed on joints Provenance: S.H. W[illiams] of Inner Temple with bookplate to front pastedown of both book and book box, and gilt surname monogram surmounted by a bird to book box upper cover. This is the second issue of the book, consisting of the sheets of the suppressed 1865 London printing (first edition) with a new title-page. This copy is the variant with the ‘B’ in ‘By’ above and very slightly to the right of the ‘T’ in ‘Tenniel’ on the title-page and without the hyphen in ‘RabbitHole’ on the Contents page, no priority. 1,000 unbound copies of the London first edition were sold to Appleton in New York after Lewis Carroll decided to cancel the edition in July 1865 because he was dissatisfied with the illustrations. Appleton issued the purchased London sheets as is and released them in this edition with a new title-page inserted, with 42 illustrations from the woodcuts by Dalziel after John Tenniel. (1) £2000-3000
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