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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [WITH] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. [WITH] The Hunting of the Snark.

CARROLL Lewis [ie DODGSON Charles Lutwidge] 1832-1898

  • Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
  • Published: 1866 , London:
  • Condition: Very Good
London:: Macmillan and Co., 1866. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. HOLIDAY Harry 1839-1927.. A SUPERB, UNIFORMLY-BOUND SET OF THE FIRST EDITIONS OF DODGSON'S MOST CELEBRATED BOOKS. Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all uniformly bound in early 20th-century red calf gilt, all edges gilt, stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf, original cloth bound in at the end of each work, armorial bookplate to fpds (Jean S & A Watson Armour III). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1866 [1865]. 8vo. Half-title, with 42 illustrations by John Tenniel, 184*119 mm, a.e.g. SECOND EDITION (i.e. FIRST AUTHORIZED EDITION), or the first published English edition, earliest state with the inverted S in the last line of the Contents page. For this new edition published November 1865 (but dated 1866 for the Christmas market) the book was re-set by the printer Richard Clay from a copy of the suppressed 1865 Alice, forming the basis for all future Macmillan editions. Green, Lewis Carroll pp.46-56; Grolier Children's One Hundred, 35; Lovett 3; PMM 354 (note); Williams 10; Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 46. [With:] DODGSON. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 [1871]. 8vo. Half-title, one-page publisher's ad for Dodgson's works on Q1v; frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel. Provenance: James Beeby (ownership signature dated August 1872); 182*124 mm. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of p.21, with the misprint wade for wabe in the second line of the poem Jabberwocky, and with the pagination for page 95 and page 98 (no priority). Lovett 13; Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 84, . [With:] DODGSON. The Hunting of the Snark. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. 8vo. Half-title, 9 plates by Henry Holiday; 1p. publisher's advertisement at end. Provenance: FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with Baker for Banker on p.83. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 115. Faintest sunning to top 1/2 inch of Alice & Glass, tips rubbed.

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