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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there. London: Richard Clay for Macmillan, 1887.
8° (181 x 125 mm). 50 illustrations after John Tenniel. Original red cloth, gilt-stamped, spine gilt-lettered, gilt edges (spine very lightly and evenly sunned); modern cloth slipcase. Provenance: Edith Mary Miller (1870-1929, inscription from the author).
Third edition, 'Fifty-ninth thousand'. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'Edith Miller, from the Author. Oct. 3, 1893' (for the copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland inscribed to Edith on the same day, see lot 10). A VERY GOOD COPY. The alterations for this edition 'are small but may be argued to constitute a separate edition' (WMGC p.64). It was to this issue of the third edition that Dodgson referred when deciding to recall the 60th thousand (see lot 25). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 84b.
8° (181 x 125 mm). 50 illustrations after John Tenniel. Original red cloth, gilt-stamped, spine gilt-lettered, gilt edges (spine very lightly and evenly sunned); modern cloth slipcase. Provenance: Edith Mary Miller (1870-1929, inscription from the author).
Third edition, 'Fifty-ninth thousand'. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'Edith Miller, from the Author. Oct. 3, 1893' (for the copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland inscribed to Edith on the same day, see lot 10). A VERY GOOD COPY. The alterations for this edition 'are small but may be argued to constitute a separate edition' (WMGC p.64). It was to this issue of the third edition that Dodgson referred when deciding to recall the 60th thousand (see lot 25). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 84b.
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