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Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there / by Lewis Carroll ; with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel.

Accession number
PML 352456
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
London : Macmillan and Co., 1872.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
The illustrations are engraved by the brothers Dalziel.
First edition, with printer's error on page 21, "wabe" spelt incorrectly as "wade," with both pages 95 & 98 numbered. Cf. Lovett & Lovett.
Richard Clay's printing device as colophon.
Publisher's advertisements ([1] page) at end.
Description
[12], 224, [1] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in purple ink on half title page: Henrietta Maud Standen, from the Author. Christmas. 1871.
Provenance
Inscribed to Henrietta Maud Stanton; from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Binding
Maroon morocco bound by Zaehnsdorf; stamped in gilt on covers and spine; with marbled endpapers. Edges gilded.
Classification
Department