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8vo (187 x 118mm). With 42 illustrations by John Tenniel. (Half-title creased with a tiny chip and split at lower corner.) Modern red morocco gilt by Baytnun-Riviere, the upper cover with central gilt stamp depicting the White Rabbit holding his watch, the spine gilt in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, the others decorated with alternating playing card and rabbit stamps, original cloth covers bound in at rear, edges gilt; slipcased together with below.  

Provenance: Margaret (“Margie”) Eliot Tuckerman, New York (gift inscription from her cousin, Appleton Sturgis?, on the front free endpaper in pencil: “Margie / from Cousin Appleton Sturgis? [signature slightly cropped] / Xmas 1867”, and with her pencil signature and notes on half-title). Presumably members of the Appleton publishing family who published the First American edition of this work.

FIRST EDITION, second (i.e., the American re-) issue, comprising sheets of the suppressed 1865 printing of Alice with new title-page; the variant (no priority) with the "B" in "By" above the "T" in "Tenniel" on title-page and with the hyphen in "Rabbit-Hole" on Contents page. "This second issue comprises those copies of the first edition still unbound when Lewis Carroll decided in July 1865 to cancel the edition. In 1866 the copies on hand were sold to Appleton, and [1000] new title-pages were printed at Oxford, replacing the originals… Textually the Appleton issue agrees with the Macmillan 1865, the only difference being the cancel title-page" (Lewis Carroll at Texas). Robert N. Taylor, compiler, Lewis Carroll at Texas: The Warren Weaver Collection... Austin: The University of Texas, [1985], no. 2; Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature 35 (the London 1865 first edition); PMM 354 (the first issue); Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 44.

[With:]

DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll", 1832-1898). Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 [but 1871]. 

8vo (178 x 117mm). Half-title and one-page publisher's advertisement for Dodgson's works on Q1v; frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel. Modern red morocco gilt by Baytnun-Riviere, the upper cover with central gilt stamp depicting the Red Queen, the spine gilt in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, the others decorated with alternating playing card and rabbit stamps, original cloth covers bound in at rear, edges gilt.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of page 21, with the misprint “wade” for “wabe” in the second line of the poem “Jabberwocky,” and with the pagination for both pages 95 and 98 (no priority). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 84. A FINE, UNIFORMLY-BOUND SET OF THE FIRST EDITIONS OF DODGSON'S MOST CELEBRATED BOOKS.