Description
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.
