Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There

by CARROLL Lewis [ie DODGSON Charles Lutwidge] 1832-1898

$20,287 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1893. 3rd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. Rare first printing survivor? of the Suppressed 'Sixtieth Thousand' [3rd ed] issue. In the original decorative red cloth, a few marks, gilt edge tooling & characters. Spine lightly sunned, gilt titles & tooling, edges bumped. Internally, black endpapers, tissue guarded frontispiece & illustrations by John Tenniel, [11], [1], [1], 2-224 pp, [4] adverts, 50 illustrations, a.e.g., one gathering working loose & a little proud, ink ownership inscription to half-title (Feb 1894), slightly cocked, ep cracked. Housed in a superb custom drop-back box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, in crimson goatskin, suede lined, gilt tooling & characters. This suppressed issue was, according to Carroll, riddled with printing production faults. The illustrations were over-printed, the pages badly folded and it led to him threatening to terminate his contract with Macmillan. This had already been an issue for the first edition of the 1865 Alice, which was recalled after Tenniel complained about the quality of the printing. Only 60 copies had gone out when Carroll intervened. He asked Macmillan to destroy the remainder of the edition, which led to Through the Looking Glass being out of print until 1897. He later changed his mind about destroying the remaining copies of this edition, and instead favoured rebinding it and distributing it to charitable institutions, w

• Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
• Year: 1893
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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