Alice books written to amuse (and based on)
Alice Liddell
SELECTED FIRST EDITIONS OF ALICE BOOKS
Alice's Adventures Underground
LEWIS CARROLL (1886 Macmillan)
- red binding
[In 2001 a special author's (inscribed by Carroll to Alice Liddell)
presentation copy in
white vellum gilt was sold at auction for £157.250]
LEWIS CARROLL (1886 Macmillan)
- variant binding
Alice in Wonderland
(1865 Macmillan)
- withdrawn. - SIR JOHN TENNIEL
[In 1914 a copy of this work, plus a letter from Carroll and one from Tenniel were sold at Sotheby's for £200]
(1865 Appleton, NY)
- first US edition - SIR JOHN TENNIEL
(1866 Macmillan 1866)
- 2nd Ed, known as first UK edition - [SIR JOHN TENNIEL
1867 - 3rd Edition
1868 - 5th Edition
1869 : Lee & Shepard, Boston - first edition printed in US
Offered in 1995 for £385
1869 : Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland (Macmillan : first German edition)
1869 : Aventures D'Alice au Pays des Merveilles (Macmillan : First French edition)
1872 : Le Avventure D'Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie (Macmillan : first Italian edition)
'Peoples' Edition' (1887 Macmillan)
- TENNIEL
(1889 Macmillan)
'The Nursery Alice' - GERTRUDE THOMSON
(1896 Mansfield, NY)
(1907 Ward Lock)
- BLANCHE McMANUS
1901-1910
(1901 Harper, NY)
- PETER NEWELL
(1907 Cassell)
- CHARLES ROBINSON
(1907 Heinemann)
+ De Luxe Ed of 1130 copies. ARTHUR RACKHAM
De Luxe Edition offered in 1991 for £1180
(1907 John Lane, BH)
- W H WALKER
(1907 Routledge)
- THOMAS MAYBANK
(1907 Chatto & Windus)
- MILLICENT SOWERBY
1907 Macmillan (First Miniature Edition)
(1908 Nelson)
- HARRY ROUNTREE
(1910 Raphael Tuck)
- MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL
1911-1920
(1912 Blackie)
- FRANK ADAMS
(1913 Bell)
- ALICE B WOODWARD
(1914 Hodder, NY)
(1915 Frowde)
- A E JACKSON
(1916 Ward Lock)
- MARGARET W TARRANT
(1916 Gabriel, NY)
(1916 Charles H Kelly)
- GORDON ROBINSON
[The Signed (by Robinson)
UK First edition was sold at auction in 2001 for £1175]
(1917 Ginn, NY)
- OLIVER HERFORD
1920-1940
(c1920's J Coker, London)
- BESSIE PEASE
(1921 Collins)
- THOMAS HEATH ROBINSON
(1921 Raphael Tuck)
- A L BOWLEY
(c1921 R Tuck)
- with 3 pop-ups. - A L BOWLEY
(1922 Hodder & Stoughton)
(1922 Dodd, Mead NY)
- GWYNEDD HUDSON
(1922)
- Charles Pears
(nd.c1928 Allen & Unwin)
- GEORGE SOPER
(1929 Dutton NY)
(1929 Dutton, NY - 200 Large paper signed)
- WILLY POGANY
(1929 A & C Black)
- CHARLES FOLKARD
(1930 Black Sun Press, Paris)
- MARIE LAURENCIN
(1930 Black Sun Press, Paris - with extra plates)
(1932 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed by the typographer, Alice Hargreaves. - JOHN TENNIEL
Offered in 1991 for £260
(c1933 John F Shaw)
- D R SEXTON
SELECTED FIRST EDITIONS OF ALICE BOOKS
1941-1960
Alice in Wonderland Novelty Cut-Outs (c1940's Juvenile Productions, London)
(1943 P R Gawthorn)
- RENE CLOKE
(c1944 Newman Wolsey)
- ANTHONY RADO
(1946 Arandar Books, London)
- RICHARD OGLE
(1947 Pilot Press, London)
- 4 movable plates. - JULIAN WEHR
(c1950 Juvenile Productions)
- WILLY SCHERMELE
(1958 W H Allen)
- MARAJA
After 1961
(1967 Dobson)
- RALPH STEADMAN
(1969 Random House, NY)
- SALVADOR DALI
(1969 Maecenas Press, NY)
- 2700 signed by SALVADOR DALI
(1969 Purnell)
- ROSEMARY HONEYBOURNE
(1976 Children's Press, London)
- NORMY ROBINSON
(1982 Calif UP)
+ De Luxe edition (1982 Pennyroyal Press, US)
- BARRY MOSER
(1985 Holt US)
(1985 Methuen)
- MICHAEL HAGUE]
(nd. John Lane The Bodley Head)
- W H WALKER
(1988 Julia MacRae)
- KURT MASCHLER PRIZE AWARD. ANTHONY BROWN
Through the Looking Glass & What Alice Found There
(Dec 1871 with 1872 on the title page, Macmillan)
- SIR JOHN TENNIEL
9000 copies
(1872 Lee & Sheppard, Boston)
(1878 2nd UK edition)
(1898 DeWolfe, Fiske & Co, Boston)
(1899 Mansfield, NY)
- Blanche McManus
(1902 Harper, NY)
- PETER NEWELL
(1928 UK)
- HARRY ROUNTREE
(1935 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed. - ALICE HARGREAVES
Signed edition offered for £550 in 1995
(1937 Nelson)
- HELEN MUNRO
(1950 Max Parrish)
- HUGH GEE
(1972 McGibbon & Kee)
- RALPH STEADMAN
(plates only)
- PETER BLAKE
Combined Wonderland & Looking Glass
(1911 Macmillan)
- JOHN TENNIEL
(1926 J H Sears, NY)
- GERTRUDE WELLING
(c1930 Collins)
- HARRY ROUNTREE
(1946 Stockholm)
(1954 Wingate)
- MERVYN PEAKE
(1949 Heirloom Library)
- PHILIP GOUGH
(1950's Beaverbrook Newspapers)
- PATRICIA MORRIS
(1954 Dent Illustrated Children's Classics)
- re-drawing of Tenniel illus. DIANA STANLEY
Nursery Alice
The Nursery Alice (1890 Macmillan)
The Hunting of the Snark
The Hunting of the Snark : An Agony in Eight Fits (1876 Macmillan)
- Henry Holiday
(1903 Harper, NY)
- Peter Newell
(1941 Chatto & Windus)
- Mervyn Peake
(1975 Whittington Press)
- 750 numbered and signed by Harold Jones
(1975 Michael Dempsey, London £4.50)
- Ralph Steadman
(1976
Folio Society)
- Quentin Blake
(1980 Windward)
- Facsimile ed
(1983 Calif UP)
- Barry Moser
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The Train : A First-Class Magazine (1856-7)
- 5 vols. edited by Edmund Yates
College Rhymes (1860-73)
- 14 vols. Edited by Lewis Carroll 1860-3
Phantasmagoria & Other Poems (1869 Macmillan)
Some Popular Fallacies about Vivisection by Lewis Carroll (1875 June, Oxford for PP circulation)
[Not printed until after 1920]
Rhyme and Reason ? (1883 Macmillan)
- Arthur B Frost & Henry Holiday
A Tangled Tale (1885 Macmillan)
- A B Frost
The Game of Logic (1886 Macmillan)
Sylvie and Bruno (1889 Macmillan)
- Harry Furniss
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893 Macmillan)
(1894 Macmillan NY)
- Harry Furniss
Symbolic Logic - Part 1 : Eelementary (1896 Macmillan)
Offered in 1998 for £500
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898 Macmillan)
- Gertrude B Thomson
The Lewis Carroll Picture Book (1899 T Fisher Unwin)
- Lewis Carroll
Feeding the Mind (1907 Chatto & Windus)
Phantasmagoria & Other Poems (1911 Macmillan)
- miniature ed with - Arthur B Frost
Bruno's Revenge (1924 Collins nd)
Further Nonsense, Verse and Prose (1926 T Fisher Unwin)
Further Verse and Prose (Ed by Landford Reed)
(1926 London)
(1926 Appleton NY)
- H M Bateman
The Collected Verse of Lewis Carroll (1932 Macmillan)
- Tenniel, Frost, Holiday, Furniss & Carroll
For the Train (Edited by Hugh J Schonfield)
(1932 Denis Archer)
- C H Bennett & W McConnell
For the Train (Edited by Hugh J Schonfield)
(1932 Denis Archer)
- C H Bennett & W McConnell. Ltd Ed
The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch (1932 Cassell)
- edited by Florence Milner
[The Rectory Umbrella was a periodical produced in 1850 by the young Lewis Carroll]
Complete Works (Ed Alexander Woollcott)
(1939, 1949 Nonesuch Press)
The Lewis Carroll Book (1944 Tudor, NY)
Verses from Alice (1944 Collins)
- G S Sherwood
Useful and Instructive Poetry by Derek Hudson (1954 Bles)
(1954 Macmillan NY)
Written and illustrated by Carroll when he was 13 and published for the first time
The Diaries of Lewis Carroll (1953 Cassell 30/- each vol)
- 2 vols. Edited Roger Lancelyn Green
Jabberwocky (1975 PP by artist)
- John Minnion
The Wasp in a Wig (1977 Lewis Carroll Society of America - 500 chapbooks & 750 De Luxe)
(1977 Macmillan)
The Letters of .. (Ed by Professor Morton N Cohen)
(1979 Macmillan)
- 2 vols
BOOKS BY CHARLES L DODGSON
Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry (1860 James Wright, Oxford)
The Formulae of Plane Trigonometry (1861 Wright, Oxford)
A Guide to the Mathematical Student in Reading, Reviewing, and Working Examples
(1864 Wright)
An Elementary Treatise on Determinants (1867 Macmillan)
Euclid and His Modern Rivals (1879 Macmillan)
(1885 Macmillan 2nd Ed)
Euclid : Book V proved Algebraically (1874 James Parker, Oxford)
Euclid : Books I & II (1882 Macmillan)
(1885 Macmillan revised Ed)
Lawn tennis Tournaments : The True Method of Assigning Prizes .. (1883 Macmillan)
The Principles of Parliamentary Representation (1884 Harrison)
Curiosa Mathematica : Part 1 - A New Theory of Parallels (1888 Macmillan)
(1889 2nd Ed)
(1890 3rd Ed)
Curiosa Mathematica : Part 2 (1893 Macmillan)
(1893 2nd Ed)
(1894 3rd Ed)
(1895 4th Ed)
BOOKS PUBLISHED ANONYMOUSLY
Notes by an Oxford Chiel Series
The Dynamics of a Particle (1865 J Vincent, Oxford)
(1874 James Parker, Oxford - New Ed)
The New Balfry of Christ Church, Oxford (1872 James Parker, Oxford)
- by D C L
The Vision of the Three T's (1873 J Parker)
Notes by an Oxford Chiel (1874 J Parker)
The Blank Cheque (1874 J Parker)
The New Method of Evaluation (1874 J Parker)
Others
An Index to 'In Memoriam' (1862 Edward Moxon)
Twelve Months in a Curatorship (1884 E Baxter, Oxford)
Three Years in a Curatorship (1886 E Baxter, Oxford)
ALICE in WONDERLAND
ORIGINAL STORY
"Alice's Adventures Under Ground"
The
story was told to the Liddell sisters on 4th July 1862 and was
continued on at least one subsequent afternoon, and was written out
between November 1862 and February 1863. Dodgson then added
illustrations and presented the 90 page MS, bound in green morocco, to Alice Liddell on 16 November
1864, inscribed 'A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer Day.'
She kept it until 1928 when it was auctioned at Sotheby's.
Dodgson had hoped that "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", the title he had chosen, would be published
in time for Christmas 1864, but by October of that year Tenniel had only finished one drawing. Macmillan
agreed with Dodgson's suggestion of postponing publication until Easter 1865, but Tenniel was dilatory,
and did not hand in his final drawings until June 1865.
FIRST PUBLICATION (withdrawn)
The Clarendon Press moved fast and had 2,000 copies printed by the end of June 1865, one of them,
bound
in white vellum, was sent to Alice Liddell. Dodgson called at
Macmillan's and inscribed about 20 presentation copies. But Tenniel
decided he didn't like the printing of the drawings. Dodgson took this
seriously - some of them had been printed rather lightly - and decided to scrap the whole edition, even
though he looked like losing £500 as a result.
He recovered 18 presentation copies, and eventually bound copies and unbound sheets were sold to
D Appleton & Co, New York, who issued them as the first American edition in 1866.
SECOND PUBLICATION (Actual)
The printing was now entrusted to to the firm of Richard Clay, who had a new edition ready in the autumn.
The book was finally published in November 1865, bearing the date 1866 on the title page (this being
common practice at the time)
. Reviews were mixed.
REPRINTS
By the end of 1866 the book was reprinted (3000 copies)
with further reprints in 1867 and 1869.
By 1870 sales had reached 25,000.
By 1898, when Dodgson died, total sales in UK were 86,000 copies.
Dodgson retained control of all apsects of publication and sometimes called in copies that did not come
up to his high standards of printing. These were often presented by him to hospitals or other
charitable institutions.
A 'People's Edition', revised and reset, was issued by Macmillan in December 1887 and included as
a postscript 'An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves "Alice"', first printed privately for Dodgson
to distribute to child friends and then issued by Macmillan as a separate pamphlet in 1880.
Dodgson also produced a version of the story rewritten for children up to 5 years of age -
"The Nursery Alice" (1889)
Copyright expired in 1907
IMITATIONS
1869 : Jean Ingelow - Mopsa the Fairy
1874 : Christina Rossetti - Speaking Likenesses
1884 : Charles E Carryl - Davy an the Goblins
1891 : Charles E Carryl - The Admiral's Caravan
1887 : Alice Cocrkran - Down the Snow Stairs
1895 : Edward Abbott Parry - Katawampus
1890 : Maggie Brown - Wanted, A King
1895 : G E Farrow - The Wallypug of Why
1919 : E F Benson - David Blaize and the Blue Door
1961 : Norton Juster - The Phantom Tolbooth
FILMS
"Alice in Wonderland" (1933)
"Alice in Wonderland" ( (1951)
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1972)
"Alice" (1988)
READING
1898-1910
Stuart Dodgson Collingwood : The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll
(1898 T Fisher Unwin)
- by his nephew
Isa Bowman : The Story of Lewis Carroll (1899 Dent)
(1900 Dutton)
Belle Moses : Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home (1910 Appleton, NY & London)
1911-1930
Sidney Herbert Williams : A Bibliography of the Writings of Lewis Carroll
(1924 Bookman's Journal, London)
- 700
S H Williams : Some Rare Carrolliana (1924 PP in London for circulation)
- 79 signed
Walter de la Mare : Lewis Carroll (1930 Faber)
- 65 numbered copies
1931-1950
Langford Reed : The Life of Lewis Carroll (1932 Foyle)
M L Parrish : A Supplementary List of the Writings of Lewis Carroll in the Library of
Dormy House, Pine Valley, New Jersey (1933 PP)
- 66
(Intro & Notes by Evelyn M Hatch)
: Selection from the Letters of Lewis Carroll to his Child-friends
(1933 Macmillan)
William Empson : Alice in Wonderland (1935)
Florence Becker Lennon : Lewis Carroll - A Biography (1947 Cassell)
Roger Lancelyn Green : The Story of Lewis Carroll (1949 Methuen)
Helmut Gernsheim : Lewis Carroll - Photographer (1949 Max Parrish)
1951-1980
Elizabeth Sewell : In Her The Field of Nonsense (1952)
Alexander L Taylor : The White Knight - A Study of C L Dodgson (1952 Oliver & Boyd)
Derek Hudson : Lewis Carroll (1954 Constable)
(1976 Constable - Revised Ed)
(1995 Constable pb £9.95)
Colin Fordon : Beyond the Looking-Glass
S H Williams & F Maden : The Lewis Carroll Handbook (1962 OUP)
(1970 Dawsons Pall. Rev Ed)
Graham Ovenden : The Illustrators of Alice (1972 Academy Editions)
John Pudney : Lewis Carroll and His World (1976 Thames & Hudson)
Jean Gattegno : Fragments of a Looking-Glass - from Alice to Zeno (1977 Allen & Unwin)
Anne Clark : Lewis Carroll - A Biography (1979 Dent)
M N Cohen : Lewis Carroll - Photographer of Children - Four Nude Studies
(1979 Rosenbach Foundation, Phila)
(Ed)
M N Cohen : (Ed)
Lewis Carroll and the Kitchins (1980 Argosy Bookstore, NY)
- 793
After 1981
Anne Clark : Alice Liddell - The Real Alice (1981 M Joseph)
[Alice Liddell later married, becoming Mrs Reginald Hargreaves, and is buried at Lyndhurst in Hampshire]
Colin Gordon : Beyond the Looking-Glass (1982 H & S)
Morton N Cohen : Lewis Carroll (1995 Macmillan £25)
Donald Thomas : Lewis Carroll - A Portrait with Background (1996 John Murray £25)
Jo Elwyn Jones & J Francis Gladstone : The Alice Companion - A Guide to
Lewis Carroll's Alice Books (1998 Macmillan £25)
(Ed)
MOrten N Cohen & Edward Wakeling : Lewis Carroll & His Illustrators - Collaborations
& Correspondence 1865-1898 (2003 Mamcillan £30)