1900 Scarce McLoughlin Edition - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
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(Description)
Author: Lewis Carroll; John Tenniel.
Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin Brothers, no date (circa 1900). First thus in this binding variant.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 9.5 " X 7 ".
Pages: 154 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good, near fine, original decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover. A rare find in this binding variant!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining, last free endpaper page slightly creased - as shown, name of a previous 1907 owner on the second blank page - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with all the 41 illustrations by John Tenniel and the beautiful color frontispiece.
Estimate: (Scarce with practically no other copy in this binding variant available worldwide).
The book: Attractive, in an uncommon variant binding, edition of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
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.