ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE

by CARROLL, Lewis; pseudonym of DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; illustrated by TENNIEL, John; binding by GLADSTONE, Charles Elsden:

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First edition

London: Macmillan and Company. 1866 and 1872. First editions. First editions. Two volumes. Finely bound by Charles Elsden Gladstone in elaborately decorated full brown morocco, the spines with five raised bands and titles in gilt. Gilt decorated inner boards, marbled endpapers. Binder s initials stamped in gilt to the lower inner front board. All edges gilt. The publisher s cloth bound in as the front and rear pastedown of Through the Looking Glass. Illustrated with frontispieces and 90 illustrations across the two volumes by John Tenniel. The four page leaflet To All Child Readers of Alice In Wonderland , originally issued loosely laid in to first editions of Through the Looking Glass, has been retained and bound in. Some spotting and a couple of tiny closed tears to the margins of Alice s Adventures in Wonderland, otherwise a fine set. Alice s Adventures in Wonderland is the first published edition, the second overall: the book was originally printed in Oxford at the Clarendon Press in June 1865, but was suppressed when Carroll heard that the book s illustrator was dissatisfied with the quality of the printing. He recalled the few pre-publication copies he had sent out to his friends and donated them to hospitals, where most perished. Only 23 of those original 1865 Alices are now extant, mostly in institutional holdings, thus creating one of the most famous black tulips of book collecting. The book was entirely reset by Richard Clay for the present authorized Macmillan edit

• Publisher: London: Macmillan and Company. 1866 and 1872
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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