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The wasp in a wig : a "suppressed" episode of Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there : with a preface, introduction and notes / by Martin Gardner.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 82
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898, author.
- Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010, author of preface, author of introduction, annotator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Through the looking-glass.
- Carroll, Lewis.
- English literature.
- Through the looking-glass (Carroll, Lewis).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Modern No. 8.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon Italic.
- Mohawk Superfine (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 21, [3] pages, [4] leaves (3 folded), [4] pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : The Angelica Press
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 1977.
- Notes:
- "Limited edition."
- 750 copies printed.
- Includes "Facsimile of corrected galley proofs of suppressed portion of Through the Looking-Glass (Slips 64-67 and portions of 63 and 68)" on 4 leaves (3 fold.)--following text.
- In red cloth, with sides bordered in gold, spine ruled and lettered in gold; black-and-white marbled endpapers.
- This book has been edited by Edward Guiliano.--verso of title page.
- Book designed by Dennis J. Grastorf and printed by the Angelica Press, New York City, on Mohawk Superfine. The text type is 11pt. Modern No. 8 with Caslon Italic for the display.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean- François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 228.
- OCLC:
- 27151789
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