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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 352459
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 error on page 21, "wabe" spelt incorrectly as "wade," with both pages 95 and 98 numbered. Cf. Lovett & Lovett.
Publisher's advertisements ([1] page) at end.
Richard Clay's printing device as colophon.
Library's copy housed in 1/4 red morocco over cloth slipcase with matching cloth chemise.
Description
[12], 224, [1] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Rubberstamp at the bottom of publisher's advertisement: MADE IN ENGLAND.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Binding
Red cloth bound by Burn & Co. with their ticket, with pictorial vignettes of the Queen of Hearts and the White Queen in gilt on covers; stamped in gilt on spine. Edges gilded, with blue-black endpapers bound.
Classification
Department