1916 Scarce Windermere Edition - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass illustrated by Milo Winter.

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 (Description) 

Author: CARROLL, Lewis. (Milo Winter, illustrator).
Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass ( Windermere Series) with Illustrations By Milo Winter.
Publisher: Chicago New York, Rand McNally & Company, 1916. First edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 9 " X 7 ".
Pages: 242 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original illustrated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. 
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, light crease to the frontispiece - as shown, rare light foxing - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with the 12  beautiful full-page illustrations by Milo Winter.

Estimate: (Scarce with practically no other copy in this binding variant available worldwide).

The book: Scarce and attractive first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass illustrated by Milo Winter in the first variation of the Windermere Series.

The illustrator: Milo Winter (August 7, 1888 – August 15, 1956) was a famous American book illustrator. He created editions of Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels, Tanglewood Tales (1913), and others.

The author: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark – all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.