[Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] "Lewis Carroll"

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ... Sixteenth Thousand. London: Macmillan & Co., 1869



8vo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.; 190 x 133 mm). Frontispiece, text illustrations.



With his:
Through the Looking Glass ... Thirteenth Thousand. London: Macmillan & Co., 1872



8vo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.; 190 x 133 mm). Half-title, frontispiece, text illustrations.

Albert Henry Wiggin (bookplate) — Lynde Selden (two armorial bookplates)

a few marginal stains in Alice, an occasional light spot in Looking Glass, upper joints mended, endleaves somewhat frayed.
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Whimsical Cosway bindings, with two oval miniatures after Tenniel's illustrations, painted on ivory by C. B. Currie, one set in each cover. Uniformly bound in citron crushed morocco, single-fillet border, each miniature surrounded by a single-fillet and starburst made from inlaid red morocco with linear gilt rays, dark blue watered-silk doublures and endleaves, gilt-ruled turn-ins, edges gilt, by Rivière & Son, stamp-signed in gilt on lower doublures "Miniatures by C.B. Currie," numbers 805 and 806 of the Cosway bindings according to a printed sheet signed by J.H. Stonehouse and C.B. Currie bound in, in a citron calf slipcase.