Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; [With] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

Description

Uniformly bound in red morocco, an early edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.

Twelvemo, [two volumes], [xii], 192pp; xii, 224pp, [2]. Full red morocco. Five raised bands, title in gilt with gilt devices on spines. All edges gilt. Finely bound by Root & Son of London, with bindery imprint on the front endpaper. Both with half-titles. Original red cloth binding of each volume is preserved and bound in at rear.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is the “Seventy-Fifth Thousand,” so stated on title page. Solid text block, light sunning to spine. Previous ownership inscription on front flyleaf, dated 1885. Complete with forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece. (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, 42)

Through the Looking-Glass is the “Fifty-Sixth Thousand,” so stated on title page. Solid text block, light sunning to spine. Complete with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece and chess diagram at front of volume. (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, 84) Housed together in a custom red cloth slipcase.

A beautiful, nearly fine set of children’s literature classics.