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Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter Writing [With] ÉPostage-Stamp Case by CARROLL, Lewis
Book Description
Oxford: Emberlin and Son, 1890. First edition. Wrappers and folded card with color lithograph of Alice on front and Cheshire cat on back, inside 12 compartments for stamps ranging in value from 1/2 d to 1s., (this copy with six of the stamp compartments filled in with stamps of appropriate values) with matching slipcase of linen backed paper. Preserved in original pink envelope printed in black. Very light edge wear to the envelope; otherwise a fine set. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case. The stamp case was apparently invented by Dodgson 29 October 1888 and the first sets were sold in July 1890; Wise Words was reprinted many times and an eight edition was offered as late as 1910. The book was an advertisement of the stamp case and the "Advise to Writers" at the end of the work encourages the reader to buy the case which has "2 Coloured Pictorial Surprises taken from Alice in Wonderland. These "surprises" are that Alice holds a baby on the illustration to the slipcase and inside on the case itself is holding a pig; the Cheshire cat is visible and then disappears on the inner case. Williams, Madan and Green.
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