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INSCRIBED BY LEWIS CARROLL AT CHRISTMAS: THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, WITH INTERESTING ASSOCIATION

CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872. Small octavo, original gilt-embossed red cloth, all edges gilt. Housed in custom chemise and full red morocco pull-off case.

First edition, first issue of the important companion to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, inscribed by Lewis Carroll to a young girl on the half title in his characteristic purple ink: “Alice Carlisle—from the Author. Christmas 1881.”

A sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass “equals its predecessor in the brilliance of its nonsense, and features many characters who quickly became immortals of children’s literature? the Red Queen, the White Queen, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, and the White Knight” (Carpenter and Prichard, 527). With fifty woodcut illustrations and frontispiece by John Tenniel. First issue with misprint “wade” on page 21, instead of “wabe” as correctly printed in the mirror-image on the same page. This copy with bookplate of Carroll bibliographer Sidney Williams. Williams 84. Some light wear to cloth of spine, with lightest scattered foxing to several leaves. An exceptional inscribed copy of one of the most beloved books in children’s literature.