Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Lewis+Carroll&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lewis Carroll</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">inscribed</a> to political cartoonist <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=John+Proctor&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Proctor</a>.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John Tenniel.</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1868.</li><li>Thirteenth thousand.</li><li>Inscribed by Dodgson in black ink on the half-title "John Proctor, Esq/ from the Author/ Oct. 1868".</li><li>Bound in the publisher's gilt stamped red cloth, dark green pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt, Burn binders ticket to rear pastedown.</li></ul> Proctor was a political cartoonist, working profusely for Judy and later Fun. John (Puck) Proctor was mentioned as an artist approached by Dodgson to illustrate Through the Looking-Glass after Tenniel's initial refusal (he finally relented). There is a letter from Proctor to Dodgson (Carroll) turning down the offer in the Dodgson Family archives.

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