CARROLL, Lewis.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. First published edition of Carroll's enormously influential work of fantasy literature. Virginia Woolf maintained that when reading the book, "it does not matter how old, how important, or how insignificant you are, you become a child again".The book was originally printed in Oxford at the Clarendon Press in June 1865, but Dodgson heard that Tenniel was dissatisfied with the quality of printing, so he suppressed the entire edition of 2,000 copies. The book was entirely reset by Richard Clay for this present edition which, although dated 1866, was ready by November 1865, in time for the Christmas market. The unused Oxford sheets were sold to Appleton for their New York edition, published the following summer. The Macmillan edition was published in an edition of 4,000 copies. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is "especially demonstrative of the fantasy genre; Alice, a stranger to Wonderland, realises the fantastical nature of the world that surrounds her and must constantly work to navigate and understand it" (Carter). The work was "enormously influential, bringing about a sea change in children's fantasy and mounting a defiant opposition to the didactic tendencies of Victorian children's literature" (Stableford, p. 63).The lettering on the spine of this copy reads "MACMILLAN", as required by Williams, Madan, Green, and Crutch (p. 34). Lovett, however, calls for "MACMILLAN & CO." (p. 38). There are known to be binding variants, and the presence

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