Title: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There Author: Carroll, Lewis Place: London Publisher: Macmillan Date: 1872 Description: [12], 224, [3] pp. Illustrations by John Tenniel. 7¼x5, original gilt-stamped red cloth, gilt vignettes on covers, dark green endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition, First Issue. First issue with "wade" on p.21. This copy with a reward presentation inscription on the back of the front free endpaper, "To Mabel Grimwood, form Miss Hennell, as a reward for increased industry during the last half-year. Cheltenham, Christmas 1871." The book must have been purchased prior to the official 1872 publication date, as the publisher evidently rushed it into shops in time for the 1871 Christmas trade. With bookseller's ticket of John J. Banks, Stationer, Imperial Library, Cheltenham, to top corner of front pastedown; ticket of binder Burn & Co., to lower corner of rear pastedown. Bookplate of Joseph T.P. Sullivan. Lot Amendments Condition: Cloth with some finger soiling and a few light stains, joints and corners rubbed, cloth splitting along rear joint, minor fraying to spine ends; hinges just starting to crack at endpapers, a few spots of adhesion damage to pastedowns, very good, in modern custom folding half morocco box. Item number: 214811
Title: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There Author: Carroll, Lewis Place: London Publisher: Macmillan Date: 1872 Description: [12], 224, [3] pp. Illustrations by John Tenniel. 7¼x5, original gilt-stamped red cloth, gilt vignettes on covers, dark green endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition, First Issue. First issue with "wade" on p.21. This copy with a reward presentation inscription on the back of the front free endpaper, "To Mabel Grimwood, form Miss Hennell, as a reward for increased industry during the last half-year. Cheltenham, Christmas 1871." The book must have been purchased prior to the official 1872 publication date, as the publisher evidently rushed it into shops in time for the 1871 Christmas trade. With bookseller's ticket of John J. Banks, Stationer, Imperial Library, Cheltenham, to top corner of front pastedown; ticket of binder Burn & Co., to lower corner of rear pastedown. Bookplate of Joseph T.P. Sullivan. Lot Amendments Condition: Cloth with some finger soiling and a few light stains, joints and corners rubbed, cloth splitting along rear joint, minor fraying to spine ends; hinges just starting to crack at endpapers, a few spots of adhesion damage to pastedowns, very good, in modern custom folding half morocco box. Item number: 214811
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