[Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] "Lewis Carroll"

8vo (7 5/8 x 5 1/8 in.; 194 x 130 mm). Electrotyped frontispiece, and 42 illustrations from the woodcuts by Dalziel after John Tenniel, 3-page "An Easter Greeting to Every Child who loves 'Alice'" bound in after half-title; some mainly marginal spotting. Publisher's red pictorial cloth, gilt edges; rebacked with original spine laid down, corners mended, some soiling.

With his:
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan & Co., 1872 [1871]



8vo (7 1/4 x 4 7/8 in.; 184 x 124 mm). 50 wood-engraved illustrations after John Tenniel, 1 leaf of publisher's advertisements at end, 3-page "To All Child-Readers of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" bound in; a few minor marginal stains. Publisher's red pictorial cloth, gilt edges; rebacked with original spine laid downm extremities rubbed with a few minor mends. In a red cloth drop-box.

Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 46 & 84

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First published (second English) edition of Wonderland, preceded by the American edition, presentation copy: "Bessie Slatter from the Author" inscribed on half-title. The first edition of 2,000 was recalled by Dodgson, following the unsatisfactory printing of Tenniel's illustrations, and was never offered for public sale. This copy is In the first state with inverted "S" in the last line of contents page. For this new edition the book was re-set by the printer Richard Clay from a copy of the 1865 Alice (prepared by The Clarendon Press, Oxford); it is this version which formed the basis for all future Macmillan editions.

With the first edition, first issue ("wade" on p. 21) of Looking-Glass, also a presentation copy to Bessie Slatter: "Elizabeth Anne Slatter from the Author Christmas 1871" inscribed on half-title. This is one of 100 presentation copies Dodgson sent on 8 December 1871.

John Slatter (1818-1899), Curate of Sandford-on-Thames, Vicar of Streatley, and Rector of Whitchurch, his wife, mother, and daughter Elizabeth ("Bessie") were close friends of the author, who visited and photographed them (Letters, Cohen ed., I:46, note 4).