![]() ![]() ![]() Sales of 'Alice's adventures in Wonderland' rose steadily and the first German and French translations appeared in 1869.Ī sequel, 'Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there', followed in late 1871 with fine illustrations supplied again by Tenniel.ĭodgson adapted 'Alice's adventures in Wonderland' for younger readers in 'The Nursery "Alice" '(1890). (The remaining unbound sheets were later sold to a New York publisher and issued with a new 1866 title-page.)Ī new printer, Richard Clay, was employed to reset and print the second edition, as a replacement. Returned copies were donated to children's hospitals or given away for the use of sick children. The author subsequently withdrew the first issue and asked recipients of presentation copies to return them. Only a small number of copies had been bound when Dodgson received a complaint from Tenniel about the quality of the printing. The famous artist John Tenniel supplied the illustrations, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. 'Alice's adventures in Wonderland' was published in 1865 by Macmillan and Co, and was printed by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, in a print run of 2000 copies. ![]()
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