1898 Rare Victorian Book - Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There published by Lothrop
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Author : CARROLL, Lewis (John Tenniel, illustrator)
Title : Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There.
Publisher : Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, no date ( circa 1898).
Language : Text in English
Size : 9.5 " X 8 "
Pages : 208 pages
Binding : Atractive and very good original Victorian decorated hardcover binding (overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover. Rare find in any condition.
Content : Good to very good content (bright and tight, rare foxing and staining, small tear in the upper margin of title page, lower corner of page 200 missing, tear on page 137 -as shown, rest of the content in very good condition. ).
Illustrations : Including a beautiful frontis illustration and in-text illustrations by John Tenniel.
Estimate : (USD 150 - USD 250)
The book : Scarce and attractive edition of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) --a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical 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 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.