Book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. London, Macmillan and Co., 1876. Duke Collection, accession number: AAD/2006/4/11.

With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. 192 pages. With inserts: magazine or newspaper cutting depicting a rider on a horse; two pencil drawings by Beatrix Potter, one a rough study for a finished drawing in the Linder Bequest (LB 971), 'Trial of the Knave of Hearts', dated January 1894. (See: Beatrix Potter: the V&A collection (London: The Victoria and Albert Museum and Frederick Warne, 1985), p. 106). Two pencil drawings housed and numbered separately: AAD/2006/4/400-401. Wood-engraved frontispiece and wood-engraved text illustrations by the Dalziel Brothers after Tenniel. Signed and gathered in fours. Case bound in red cloth with panel stamped blocked in gold on upper and lower covers. Gilt edges. Navy blue endpapers.

Given by Joan Duke

Library's copy inscribed in ink on half-title: 'Helen Beatrix Potter / with love from J. C. Wilson / June. 29. 1876'. Wilson was a professor of moral philosophy at Oxford, a liberal reformer and a friend of the Potter family. Beatrix Potter recounted her impressions on receiving this gift from Wilson in a letter to Helen Dean Fish (editor of children's books for J.B. Lippincott Company in New York) on 8th December 1934: 'I was playing in the same garden when a friend of my father's, Professor Wilson from Oxford, came in and produced a book from his pocket and discussed with my Mother whether I ws old enough - or whether the book was too old? which was the same thing. It had been written by another Oxford don and was attracting attention. I became immediately so absorbed with Tenniel's illustrations that I don't remember what they said about "Lewis Carroll"'. (See: Beatrix Potter's letters / selected and introduced by Judy Taylor (Frederick Warne, 1989), p.369.)
Library's copy previously owned by Beatrix Potter and donated to the Library by Joan Duke in October 2006.

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