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CARROLL, LEWIS [Dodgson,
Charles Lutwidge].
Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland * Through the
Looking Glass.
Together, 2 volumes.
42, and 50 illustrations by John Tenniel.
Half-titles. 8vo, contemporary full tan
calf by Riviere, gilt-paneled, spine and
all edges gilt, rear cover of second title
with spot staining; inner dentelles, original
covers bound in at end of each volume.
London: Macmillan, 1866; 1872
[800/1,200]
Alice’s Adventures is a later printing (“Ninth
Thousand”); Looking Glass a first issue, with “wade” for
“wabe” on page 21.With the leaflet “To All Child-Readers of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
laid-in to first title.
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CARROLL, LEWIS [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge].
Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland.
42 illustrations by John Tenniel. Half-title, frontispiece. 8vo, rebound in full
red crushed morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf, bordered in gilt reproducing
original covers, spine gilt in compartments, all edges and turn-ins gilt; contents show light
foxing throughout; original covers bound-in at end (front cover with embossed dedication
around central device).
NewYork:Appleton, 1866
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
,
comprising sheets of the suppressed 1865 first English printing with a
new title-page. Poor printing quality forced Carroll to cancel the first edition published by Macmillan in
London. He decided, however, to sell the unbound sheets to Appleton in the United States. Those
1000 volumes were bound in England, with a new title-page printed by the Clarendon Press bearing
Appleton’s name and dated 1866.Williams, Madan, Green 44;Avery 6.
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