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[RIVIERE & SONS. binders]. DODGSON, Rev. CHARLES LUTWIDGE ("Lewis Carroll"). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1869. Frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel -- Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872. Frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel. Together 2 volumes, 8vo, citron morocco, gilt by Riviere and Son after designs by John Stonehouse, with circular miniature by Miss Currie (depicting Alice dancing with the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon, p. 150 and Alice with the King and the Messenger who "handed a sandwich to the King" p. 142), laid in the upper cover of each volume surrounded by a design of rays made up from morocco inlays and gilt tooling, chipping and splitting along upper joint of first volume, upper joint of second volume repaired; silk doublures and linings. Numbers 805 and 806 of the Cosway Bindings signed by Stonehouse and Currie. (2)