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Carroll, Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
Estimate
2,500 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Carroll, Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Macmillan and Co., 1866
- PAPER
8vo, second [first published] edition, wood-engraved illustrations after John Tenniel, full red pictorial calf gilt signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe replicating design of original covers, spine gilt in compartments, sections of original binding preserved at end, new endpapers, original endpapers preserved, collector's red calf and cloth slipcase, gilt edges, some creases and minor loss to original endpapers
Literature
Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 46
Catalogue Note
This copy includes the inverted 'S' in the final line of the Contents listing, thought to be a feature of the earliest state of the first published edition. This is confirmed by an ownership inscription on the original endpapers which is dated Christmas 1865.