1900 Rare edition - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Author : CARROLL, Lewis (John Tenniel, illustrator)
Title : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. 2 Volumes bound in one.
Publisher : New York, Published by Hurst and Company, no date (circa 1900's).
Language : Text in English
Size : 8" X 6 "
Pages : 274 pages
Binding : Attractive and very good original decorated cloth binding (overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright and clean, inner binding slightly weak but still tight and secure, gift note dated 1907 on first endpaper).
Illustrations : Profusely illustrated by John Tenniel (Complete with the color illustrations and the black and white intext illustrations).
The book : Rare and attractive edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There 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.