CARROLL, Lewis.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; [together with] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. First published editions of both Alice books, presentation copy of Wonderland, inscribed by the author to the distinguished illustrator and potential collaborator on Looking-Glass, Richard Doyle (1824-1883) on the half-title: "R. Doyle, Esq., from C L Dodgson". Copies signed by the author with his actual name are rare.Dodgson used the blank pages of one of his diaries to record the names of people to receive a presentation copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. These lists include 19 names for "Presentation Copies of Alice Party at Croft Rectory Common Room, Ch[rist] Ch[urch" and Doyle appears in the company of Tennyson, Tenniel, and Tauchnitz (Diaries, p. 25). Wakeling notes that most of the inscribed copies of Alice "have the inscription '... from the Author' and rarely contain a date" (Diaries, p. 18).With reference to illustrations, Dodgson "had proved so exact, and exacting, as a critic of the way his requirements were carried out, that Tenniel, when approached about the illustrations for Through the Looking-Glass, declared he was too busy" (Williams, Madan, Green, Crutch, p. 63). Dodgson appealed to Tenniel, who suggested Richard Doyle. Accordingly, Dodgson wrote to him on 22 January 1867.The initial approach was apparently promising for Dodgson recorded in his diary that, on 24 January 1867 he "called on Doyle, and his discussed the idea of his illustrating [Thro

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