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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. WITH Through the Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found There
by CARROLL Lewis [ie DODGSON Charles Lutwidge] 1832-1898
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
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- Condition
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co.: Macmillan and Co., 1868. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. 2 vols as 1, 1868, 12th thousand, 42 illust & 1872, 1st ed, 1st issue, 50 illust's. VG. In contemporary full red calf, gilt & blind edge tooling, corners & edges brushed. Spine, decorative gilt tooling, raised bands, gilt titles & tooling to black calf label, joints brushed. Internally, half title, tissue guarded frontis, [12], [1], 2-192 pp, 42 illustrations (B&W). [1], [8], [1], 2-224 pp, 50 ilust + 1, marbled endpapers & text block edges, bookplate to fpd, fep (George David Leslie Melville), diagonal repaired tear to p33/34, Looking-Glass has the corrcted b on p21 indicating not 1st issue, tipped in newspaper clippings to verso fep & ffep, contemp ink dedication & anchor to half title, printed by R Clay, Son, and Taylor, Bread Street Hill. The Glass lacks a front blank & the half title, whilst the Alice TP a little cropped along the Rights of Translation line. (Williams p30. Allibone 498. Gumuchian 78. Madan p29). Dodgson, author, mathematician, and photographer, whose writing meant a great deal to him, would often stand at his upright desk (he calculated that he could stand and write for ten hours a day), he turned out a myriad of works. See ODNB.
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- Title
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. WITH Through the Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found There
- Author
- CARROLL Lewis [ie DODGSON Charles Lutwidge] 1832-1898
- Illustrator
- TENNIEL John 1820-1914
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London: Macmillan and Co.
- Date Published
- 1868
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction juvenile children carroll Classics, Collections by a Single Author, General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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