• Publication: Alices Abenteuer im WunderlandPublication Record # 660503
• Author: Lewis Carroll
• Date: 1869-00-00
• Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
• Price:
  6/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 178
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • Translated by Antonie Zimmermann Translated or published February 1869 --Christie's Auction House, as the first translation from English (see the novel record)
  • With 42 illustrations by John Tenniel (42 is the announced number of illustrations in the original.)
  • 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 French edition in The Spectator 1869-08-07 p933-34 "Alice Translated" (unsigned, long, illustrative, positive)
  • Library of Congress (LCCN, below) describes "green cloth ..." with gilt front and back cover decorations that contain pictorial central vignettes, presumably by Tenniel.
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 47041828

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Alices Abenteuer im Wunderland • juvenile • [Alice • 1] • (1869) • novel by Lewis Carroll (trans. of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1865)
•  Alices Abenteuer im Wunderland • interior artwork by John Tenniel (variant of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1865)