1877 Rare Victorian Book - Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll.

 

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Author: CARROLL, Lewis (John Tenniel, illustrator).
Title: Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There.
Publisher: London and New York, Macmillan & Co, 1877. 43rd Thousand.
Language: Text in English.
Size : 8 " X 5 ".
Pages: 224 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original Victorian decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. A rare find in this condition!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, small antique bookseller stamp on the first endpaper). 
Illustrations: Including 50 beautiful illustrations by John Tenniel.

Estimate : (USD 450 - USD 600)

The book: Rare and attractive edition of the Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice enters a fantastic world this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter," and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The mirror which inspired Carroll remains displayed in Charlton Kings.

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 wordplay, 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.