Carroll | Lewis

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

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    Early edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, uniformly bound in red morocco.

    Twelvemo, [two volumes], [xii], 192pp; xii, 224pp, [2]. Finely bound in three-quarter red morocco, marbled paper boards. Five raised bands, title in gilt with gilt devices on spines. All edges gilt, new endpapers. Both with half-titles.

    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is an early edition, with “Fourteenth Thousand” stated on title page. Solid text block, faint and occasional foxing to leaves, complete with forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece. Through the Looking-Glass is a first edition, first impression, with “wade” in the place of “wabe” on page 21. Solid text block, touch of foxing to front and rear leaves. Preface incorrectly bound after page two. Previous ownership inscription on half-title. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel, including frontispiece.

    (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, 84) A beautiful set of children’s literature classics.

    Additional information

    Location Published

    London

    Publisher

    Macmillan and Company

    Edition

    Early Edition

    Date Published

    1869 / 1872

    Binding

    Cloth

    Condition

    Very Good

    Author

    Carroll | Lewis

    Author Display

    Lewis Carroll