Book Description

Carroll, Lewis (= C.L. Dodgson 1832-1898), Tenniel, John (1820-1914). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-two Illustrations by John Tenniel. Fifty-third thousand (1876). - [With:] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. Thirty-fourth thousand (1873). [Desirable set in early editions of both Wonderland-works, uniformly bound in very fine condition]. London, Macmillan & Co., 1876/ 1873, 53rd/ 34th thous., (10),192,(2); (10),224.(3) pag., 42 and 50 b/w illustrations by and original uniform red cloth stamped in gilt after John Tenniel, all edges gilt.
Dealer Notes
= Both works wonderful examples, tight in the binding with no restorations, repairs, no stains to bindings and free of inscriptions, ex-libris etc. Through the Looking-Glass (...) with modets binder's ticket on lower pastedown ("Burn & Co."). Certainly the best set on the market and also the best we have encountered in along time.
First work tiny (ink?) stain on spine (diameter 3 mm.); both works first and final page slightly foxed. Both volumes with auction number in light pencil on verso first free endpaper referring to an Amsterdam auction in October 1964, where the former owner purchased the lot (easily erasible).

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), some of the most important examples of Victorian literature.
Author Carroll, Lewis (= C.L. Dodgson 1832-1898)
Date 1876/ 1873
Binding Original uniform red cloth stamped in gilt after John Tenniel, all edges gilt
Publisher Macmillan & Co.
Illustrator John Tenniel
Condition First work tiny (ink?) stain on spine (diameter 3 mm.); both works first and final page slightly foxed

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