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Author: Carroll, Lewis
Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [&] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
Place Published: London
Publisher:Macmillan and Co.
Date Published: 1866 & 1872
Description:

Comprises:

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  Alices Adventures in Wonderland. [10], 192 pp. 19.1x12.5 cm (7½x5"). Second (i.e. First Published) Edition. 1866.


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  Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. [12], 224, [3] pp. 18x12 cm (7x4"). First Edition. 1872.
  

2 volumes. Each with frontispiece and wood-engraved illustrations after John Tenniel. (8vo) original red cloth pictorially stamped and ruled in gilt on covers, spines lettered in gilt, all edges gilt; custom 2-part half morocco solander slipcase. 

Rare set of original editions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Looking-Glass, in the original cloth. The first volume is the first published English edition - the illustrator John Tenniel was deeply dissatisfied with the earlier (1865) printing of the illustrations and convinced Carroll to suppress the book at his own expense. Only about 20 copies of that 1865 Macmillan first issue survive, most in institutional collections. The book was then reprinted, in acceptable fashion, and published in England. The sheets of the 1865 printing were shipped over to the United States, given a new title page, and issued for that apparently less-discerning audience. The present copy has the inverted "S" on the last line of the Contents page, thought to be an early issue point. Through the Looking-Glass is the first issue, with "wade" on page 21. Ink inscription on front  pastedown of Wonderland reading "Alice ????, July 1866, with Helen's love."

Some rubbing/fraying to spine ends and corners, some wear to joints and hinges (Wonderland possibly recased); very good.