Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

by CARROLL, Lewis; DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge TENNIEL, John, illustrator

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London: Macmillan and Co., 1870. “Presented by Lewis Carroll to the Crofts Sisters” An Early and Documented Family Association Set of Alice and Looking-Glass CARROLL, Lewis. (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. Twenty-third thousand. London: Macmillan and Co., 1870. [with:] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. Twenty-sixth thousand. London: Macmillan & Co., 1872. Both volumes inscribed by Lewis Carroll: Alice: “Mary Dowell Crofts / from the Author / 1870.” Looking-Glass: “Florence Crofts / from the Author / March 9, 1873.” Two volumes. Small octavo (7 x 4 7/8 inches; 178 x 98 mm.). Uniformly bound ca. 1940 by Bayntun-Rivière in full red morocco, covers ruled in gilt, each upper cover with a central gilt vignette (White Rabbit; Red Queen), spines with five raised bands, compartments richly tooled in gilt with Carrollian emblems, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. A fine and attractive uniform set. Provenance & Association: A remarkable and fully identified presentation set, inscribed by Carroll to Mary Dowell Crofts and her sister Florence Crofts, daughters of J. D. M. Crofts. The Crofts family is well documented within Carroll’s circle. As recorded in The Letters of Lewis Carroll, Dodgson: formed a friendship with the family in the 1860s and visited them at Sevenoaks and Hastings. Lewis Carroll photographed Mary Crofts and maintained an ongoing corres

• Publisher: London: Macmillan and Co., 1870
• Binding: unknown

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