Through the Looking-Glass,
£225 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books
The second title is the first edition, later issue (the same year as the first) of Carroll's sequel to Alice in Wonderland, including the Jaberwocky and The Walrus and the Carpenter verses, and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee. First edition, later issue, sixyy-seventh thousand; 8vo (193 x 135 mm); half-title, 50 wood-engraved illustrations after John Tenniel (including frontispiece), 3 pp advertisements at rear, near contemporary gift inscription to upper free endpaper, dated 1925, slight age-toning, otherwise remarkably clean; publisher's red pictorial cloth gilt, gilt edges, mild soiling, spine darkened, mild rubbing to extremities and browning to endpapers, otherwise very good.
- Binding: Hardcover
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