DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll"). Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland . London: Macmillan, 1869. 8 o (184 x 130 mm). Illustrated by John Tenniel. (Some minor foxing and slight marginal browning.) Original green cloth, gilt-stamped, spine gilt-lettered, g.e., Burn & Co. binder's ticket on rear pastedown (hinges cracked, some wear to extremities). Provenance : Enie Holland (pencil signature of front free endpaper). THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION AND THE FIRST FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDITION OF 'ALICE'. PRESENTATION COPY TO HENRY KINGSLEY, novelist friend of Dodgson's and brother of Charles Kingsley, inscribed by Dodgson on the half-title: "H. Kingsley with the author's kind regards". Kingsley was one of the first to encourage Dodgson to publish Alice . The story had originated as an impromptu entertainment for the three Liddell girls on a river picnic. The heroine's namesake, Alice Liddell, asked Dodgson to write the story down for her, as she had enjoyed it so much. During a visit to the Liddells at Christ Church, Henry Kingsley happened to see the manuscript tale and insisted that it be published. He later wrote to Carroll, on receiving a copy: "Many thanks for your charming little book. My real opinion of it may be gathered from this fact, that I received it in bed in the morning, and in spite of threats and persuasions, in bed I stayed until I had read every word of it. I could pay you no higher compliment in half a dozen pages, than confessing that I could not stop reading your book till I had finished it. The fancy of the whole thing is delicious; it is like gathering cowslips in springtime ... your versification is a gift I envy you very much" ( The Letters of Lewis Carroll . New York, 1979). Kingsley's later children's works, such as The Boy in Grey (1871), show signs of Dodgson's influence, and the hero of Valentin: A French Boy's Story of Sedan (1872) is familiar with "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and comments on it as as a satire on the Franco-Prussian War. AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 71.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll"). Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland . London: Macmillan, 1869. 8 o (184 x 130 mm). Illustrated by John Tenniel. (Some minor foxing and slight marginal browning.) Original green cloth, gilt-stamped, spine gilt-lettered, g.e., Burn & Co. binder's ticket on rear pastedown (hinges cracked, some wear to extremities). Provenance : Enie Holland (pencil signature of front free endpaper). THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION AND THE FIRST FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDITION OF 'ALICE'. PRESENTATION COPY TO HENRY KINGSLEY, novelist friend of Dodgson's and brother of Charles Kingsley, inscribed by Dodgson on the half-title: "H. Kingsley with the author's kind regards". Kingsley was one of the first to encourage Dodgson to publish Alice . The story had originated as an impromptu entertainment for the three Liddell girls on a river picnic. The heroine's namesake, Alice Liddell, asked Dodgson to write the story down for her, as she had enjoyed it so much. During a visit to the Liddells at Christ Church, Henry Kingsley happened to see the manuscript tale and insisted that it be published. He later wrote to Carroll, on receiving a copy: "Many thanks for your charming little book. My real opinion of it may be gathered from this fact, that I received it in bed in the morning, and in spite of threats and persuasions, in bed I stayed until I had read every word of it. I could pay you no higher compliment in half a dozen pages, than confessing that I could not stop reading your book till I had finished it. The fancy of the whole thing is delicious; it is like gathering cowslips in springtime ... your versification is a gift I envy you very much" ( The Letters of Lewis Carroll . New York, 1979). Kingsley's later children's works, such as The Boy in Grey (1871), show signs of Dodgson's influence, and the hero of Valentin: A French Boy's Story of Sedan (1872) is familiar with "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and comments on it as as a satire on the Franco-Prussian War. AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 71.
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