By Lewis Carroll
London   Macmillan and Co.
7.5" by 5" [6], 192, [2pp]
An early edition of Lewis Carroll's important fantastical tale, complete with John Tenniel's illustrations.
By Lewis Carroll

1881 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

London   Macmillan and Co.
7.5" by 5" [6], 192, [2pp]
An early edition of Lewis Carroll's important fantastical tale, complete with John Tenniel's illustrations.
£750.00
: 0.5kgs / : 945P14

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Description

Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The sixty-seventh thousand. 

'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', is one of the best known children's books of all time, and has become the favourite to children and adults alike. It follows Alice as she falls through a rabbit role into a strange world with talking animals and magical potions.

Illustrated by John Tenniel with a frontispiece, and forty-one in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.

One page of adverts to the rear.

Condition

In a rebacked cloth binding, with the original boards and spine restored, and renewed endpapers. Externally, cloth is a little worn and rubbed, with small dampstains. Light bumping to the extremities. Spine is discoloured. Front hinge is starting but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with scattered spots and handling marks. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the half-title. Frontispiece is working loose.

Good

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