8vo. Numerous wood engravings by Bruno Rollitz after Tenniel. (Very minor spotting.) Original publisher’s red morocco gilt, smooth spine gilt, all edges gilt (minor rubbing, browning to endleaves); original blue cloth slipcase, printed paper label on spine (fading, some wear). Provenance: James E. Poling (bookplate, rear pastedown). 

LIMITED EDITION, number 735 of 1,500 copies, SIGNED BY FREDERIC WARDE, AND ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ORIGINAL ALICE, Alice Hargreaves, who signed the book during her visit to New York at the age of 81 to commemorate the centennial of Dodgson’s birth.

 

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Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. John Tenniel, illustrator. Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge for The Limited Editions Club, 1935. 8vo. Numerous engravings re-engraved by Frederic Warde. (Very minor spotting.) Original publisher’s blue morocco gilt, smooth spine gilt, all edges gilt; original red cloth slipcase, printed paper label on spine (minor wear). LIMITED EDITION, number 1,348 of 1,500 copies, ONE OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY ALICE HARGREAVES.