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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by CARROLL, Lewis; TENNIEL, John, illustrator

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Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Title
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Author
CARROLL, Lewis; TENNIEL, John, illustrator
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David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
London: Macmillan and Co, 1894. Alice in Full Dress: Tenniel's Wonderland in a Sangorski & Sutcliffe Binding CARROLL, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. Thirty-eighth thousand. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897. [Bound together with:] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. Twenty-fourth thousand. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1897. Peoples Edition. Finely Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Two works bound in one volume. Octavo (7 x 4 5/8 inches; 178 x 117 mm.). Alice: xii, 174 pp.; Looking-Glass: xii, 208, [4, advertisements] pp. Finely bound ca. 1960 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full red morocco. Covers decoratively bordered in gilt, upper cover with a central gilt medallion of Alice, lower cover with a matching medallion of the Queen of Hearts. Spine with five raised bands, compartments richly tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins, light blue and gold patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Spine lightly faded, otherwise a fine copy. The "Peoples Edition" represents Macmillan's effort to keep Carroll's works widely accessible in durable, affordable form - yet, as here, such copies were frequently elevated by later private bindings into highly collectible objects. The "thousand" printings (Thirty-eighth thousand; Twenty-fourth thousand) reflect the extraordinary and continuous demand for Carroll's works in the late 19th century. John Tenniel's illustrations remain definitive - so closely tied to the text that they effectively fixed the visual identity of Alice, the Mad Hatter, and the Queen of Hearts for all subsequent generations. The binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe - arguably the pre-eminent decorative bindery of 20th-century London - adds considerable appeal. Even in a restrained design such as this, their hallmark precision in forwarding and gilt tooling is evident. The use of thematic gilt medallions (Alice / Queen of Hearts) gives the volume a pleasing narrative symmetry rarely found in standard trade bindings.

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