Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 [1871]. Edition: First Edition. First State., Binding: Full red gilt-stamped cloth boards bound by Burns & Co., original bookbinder’s ticket pasted to lower left corner of lower pasted endpaper. Spine lettered in gilt. Black pasted and free endpapers. All edges gilt. , Notes: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 – 1898), known as Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer, widely known for his iconic children’s books, most notably being Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is its sequel.
John Tenniel (1820 – 1914) was a prominent English illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist of the second half of the 19th century. An alumnus of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, he was knighted for artistic achievements in 1893, the first such honour ever bestowed on an illustrator or cartoonist. Tenniel's detailed black-and-white drawings done for Alice in Wonderland are widely recognized to be the most iconic depictions of the famous characters; "Carroll never describes the Mad Hatter: our image of him is pure Tenniel” (Bryan Talbot, comic book illustrator and writer).
, Size: 8vo. (185 x 120 mm), Illustration: Attractive copy, first edition in first state, with the misprint “wade” on pg. 21, changed to “wabe” in later editions. With frontispiece and in-text illustrations throughout, plus one page of publisher’s advertisements. , Provenance: Gift inscription signed “J.B. Russell” dated 1871 inked on front free endpaper verso., Pages: 224 pp., Category: Book Children; Book Literature;. Very good example. Hinges and text block weak in places, interior largely clean and crisp. Item #B6970
Price: $1,900.00