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Lot 349
A stained pine woodworking chest fitted with various woodworking tools to include one marked "Jam s Howarth Sheffield", a large collection of moulding planes including examples by D McMahon also stamped "Henry Thomas 23 Bull St Birmingham", another marked "Stagg" stamped "IW", another stamped "W Pasman", etc
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Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, 'Lewis Carroll' ). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1st published edition, Macmillan, 1866, half-title present, frontispiece and numerous illustrations by John Tenniel, some light spotting and marks, F4 and M4 with crease to upper blank corner, N1 with short closed tear in lower fore-margin, blue chalk-glazed endpapers, bookplate of Richard Adams, upper hinge split, all edges gilt, stitching slightly strained, original red cloth gilt, generally dust-soiled and spine darkened, extremities slightly rubbed, loss at head of spine repaired ('A' of 'Alice' and part of first three letters of 'Adventures' relettered), 8vo in 4s, together with Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, 1st edition, Macmillan, 1872, half-title present (with small mark to lower margin), frontispiece and numerous illustrations by John Tenniel, a few minor marks (including small stain to I7), bookplate of Richard Adams, rear hinge split, all edges gilt, stitching slightly strained, original red cloth gilt, some edge-rubbing and soiling, spine a little darkened and a trifle frayed at ends, a few tiny holes in lower joint, 8vo, housed together in velvet-lined red half morocco double bookform solander box, lightly faded spine with gilt dotted line decorated raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and third compartments, remainder with alternating gilt rabbit and playing card tools, date lettered at foot, cloth sidings spotted Printing and the Mind of Man 354. Williams, Madan, Green 46; 84. The first edition of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' was printed in 1865 at the Oxford University Press. Charles Dodgson cancelled it at the last moment due to Sir John Tenniel's dissatisfaction with the printing quality of his illustrations: "The few early copies sent out were recalled; seemingly with fair success, since less than a score are known to survive today. The book was then reprinted, by Clay, with the title page re-dated 1866, and this consitutes the first regularly published edition" (Printing and the Mind of Man) Richard Adams uses a quotation from 'Through the Looking Glass' for his very last chapter heading in the Epilogue to 'Watership Down': "He was part of my dream, of course - but then I was part of his dream, too." Adams was irritated at the debate over the intended readership age of 'Watership Down'. He believed very firmly that a work of fiction should be "first and foremost, a work of artistic integrity, by its subjects and merits appealing to readers of all ages, including children", going on to say "the two 'Alice' books probably head the list here, with 'The Wind in the Willows' in honourably high place." (Richard Adams, Some Ingredients of Watership Down, in The Thorny Paradise, Writers on Writing for Children, edited by Edward Blishen, 1977, page 163) (2)
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