Publication: Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles

Publication: Aventures d'Alice au Pays des MerveillesPublication Record # 511393
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: [5]+196
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: NOVEL
Notes:
- Translated by Henri Bué
- 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)
External IDs:
- LCCN: 25002843
- OCLC/WorldCat: 2500599 639717709

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Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles • juvenile • [Alice • 1] • novel by Lewis Carroll (trans. of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1865)
Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles • interior artwork by John Tenniel (variant of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1865)

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Publication: Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles

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