Alice’s abenteuer im Wunderland.
Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1869. 8vo. [xii], 178 pp. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE IN GERMAN. Illustrations by John Tenniel. Publisher’s green cloth, title in gilt on spine, covers within triple gile borders, illustration in gilt of Alice holding a pig on the front and the Cheshire Cat on the rear, all edges gilt; front joint is badly cracked and browned, manuscript in blue pen under the half-title. Two bookplates, the first on the paste-down of H.C. Fanshawe, the second on the flly-leaf with a capital C and a No. 1330. Two newspaper articles are pasted in, one to the paste-down and the second above the half-title. Item #18601
First edition, second issue of Alice in German (the first issue having the London imprint), translated by Antonie Zimmermann. Apparently both the London and Leipzig imprints were printed from the same set of type with the exception of pages iii-x. According to Williams, “the reproductions of the woodcuts in this German edition are excellent, and bear comparison with those in any other issue of Alice in Wonderland.”
William, Madan, Green, 72.
Price: $800.00