Nov 11, 2004 - Sale 2022

Sale 2022 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 20,700
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
BEAUTIFUL SET IN ORIGINAL CLOTH CARROLL, LEWIS. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland * Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. 42 and 50 illustrations by John Tenniel. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, original red gilt-pictorial cloth. Alice's Adventures is a bright copy, only slightly rubbed; blue endpapers, split between half-title and frontispiece, the verso of which bears the tipped-in original bookseller's description, professional repairs to clean tears on several leaves including title, rear free endpaper reinforced on verso (with some adhesive bleed-through); bookplate. Through the Looking-Glass somewhat darkened, few minor spots on covers; green endpapers, hinges cracked, split between F8 and G weakening adjacent signatures, bookplate and owner's Christmas gift inscription from 1871. Housed in cloth chemises within custom polished red calf slipcase with gilt-stamped sides resembling the two distinct volumes and decoratively gilt spines, front moderately scuffed. London: Macmillan, 1866; 1872
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first published editions, first issues, of carroll's most famous tales, in original cloth.