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[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (1832-1898)] "Lewis CARROLL". Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there. London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. 8° (180 x 123mm). Half title, frontispiece and illustrations after John Tenniel (occasional light staining, newspaper clippings relating to Dodgson pasted onto blank 2G2r causing offsetting onto facing page). Contemporary pictorial "presentation" vellum gilt, boards blocked with central gilt design of the Red and White Queens after Tenniel, spine lettered in gilt, light grey endpapers, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, a little bowed), later red cloth box. Provenance: Mary ("Minnie") Frances Fuller (1859-1935, neé Drury). Williams, Madan, Green, Crutch 84a. Second edition, fifty first thousand.
PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed in purple ink, "Mary Frances Fuller, with the affectionate regards of her old friend the Author. Oct. 1882." A rare copy of Through the Looking-Glass in a presentation binding, inscribed by Dodgson to Mary Fuller, a "girl-friend", subject of his photographs and recipient of his poems. The vellum-style presentation binding is one of a small group known on volumes inscribed to close friends of Dodgson's (e.g. the dedication copy of Alice's Adventures Underground inscribed to Alice Liddell in 1886. Only one other inscribed copy of Through the Looking-Glass in a presentation binding is recorded at auction since 1975.
PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed in purple ink, "Mary Frances Fuller, with the affectionate regards of her old friend the Author. Oct. 1882." A rare copy of Through the Looking-Glass in a presentation binding, inscribed by Dodgson to Mary Fuller, a "girl-friend", subject of his photographs and recipient of his poems. The vellum-style presentation binding is one of a small group known on volumes inscribed to close friends of Dodgson's (e.g. the dedication copy of Alice's Adventures Underground inscribed to Alice Liddell in 1886. Only one other inscribed copy of Through the Looking-Glass in a presentation binding is recorded at auction since 1975.
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