Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. Together with: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. - Rare Book Insider
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. Together with: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel.

Carroll (Lewis), Rev.Charles Dodgson.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. Together with: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel.

London, Macmillan. 1901 Eighty-Ninth Thousand, 1897 Sixty-First Thousand.: 1901
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Uniformly finely bound in contemporary three-quarters dark green morocco, marbled sides, backstrips with raised bands, 5 panels, gilt with a rose motif, top edges gilt. Alice: half-title, frontispiece, pp (viii), 192. Through the Looking-Glass: half-title, leaf of the chess game, frontispiece, (ix), 224. Both volumes have a leaf Christmas Greetings (From A Fairy To A Child.) dated 1887, paginated 195 in Alice and 227 in Looking-Glass and bound-in at the end, the intervening blank having been removed in rebinding. Williams 162. A Fine Pair, with the bookplate of Louise Whitfield Carnegie, wife of Andrew Carnegie. The couple "jointly helped the creation of over 2,500 libraries between 1883 and 1929." Wikipedia.
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