DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll")
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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll") (1832-1898). Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 [but 1871].
8vo (182 x 125 mm). Half-title and one-page publisher's advertisement for Dodgson's works on Q1v; frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel. (Some very light spotting to a few leaves.) Original publisher's red cloth gilt, edges gilt (lower joint separated, a few separations to upper joint, some staining, soiling, or rubbing). Provenance: Gertrude Mostyn (signatures).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE with the misprint 'wade' for 'wabe' in the second line of the poem 'Jabberwocky' on p.21 and with the pagination for page 95, but lacking the pagination for page 98 (no priority). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 84.
500-700
8vo (182 x 125 mm). Half-title and one-page publisher's advertisement for Dodgson's works on Q1v; frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel. (Some very light spotting to a few leaves.) Original publisher's red cloth gilt, edges gilt (lower joint separated, a few separations to upper joint, some staining, soiling, or rubbing). Provenance: Gertrude Mostyn (signatures).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE with the misprint 'wade' for 'wabe' in the second line of the poem 'Jabberwocky' on p.21 and with the pagination for page 95, but lacking the pagination for page 98 (no priority). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 84.
500-700
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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll")
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