This edition is part of a print run of 2,000 books printed for MacMillan Publishers by The Clarendon Press of Oxford on June 27, 1865. The quality was deemed to be unacceptable. The paper was going to be sold as scrap. Instead, 1,952 copies were re-bound with a new title page, listing David Appleton & Co of Boston as the publisher, and sent to the US. Copies of this edition had been sent out by Lewis Carroll as presentation copies and he asked fo...
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This edition is part of a print run of 2,000 books printed for MacMillan Publishers by The Clarendon Press of Oxford on June 27, 1865. The quality was deemed to be unacceptable. The paper was going to be sold as scrap. Instead, 1,952 copies were re-bound with a new title page, listing David Appleton & Co of Boston as the publisher, and sent to the US. Copies of this edition had been sent out by Lewis Carroll as presentation copies and he asked for them to be returned. Some were not returned. There are now 22 copies of this edition that are known to exist.
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