1905 Rare Book - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illustrated

Author: Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by John Tenniel.
Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (People’s Edition).
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., 1905.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5" x 5".
Pages: 187 pages including publisher’s catalogue.
Binding: Very good and attractive original pictorial cloth binding with iconic design (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. Overall very good and appealing.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, inner joint of the first endpaper worn but holding firm, toning to endpapers as usual, text block bright and clean, early gift inscription dated Christmas 1906- as shown, small W.H. Smith and Son, Paris, Bookseller stamp on the first endpaper - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with the classic 42 illustrations by John Tenniel.

Estimate: (USD $200–250).

The book: A desirable People’s Edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, issued to bring Carroll’s masterpiece to a wider audience at an affordable price while retaining Tenniel’s celebrated illustrations. The pictorial binding and clean text block make this a charming and collectible early 20th-century example.

The author: Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) was a mathematician and writer whose Alice books remain among the most influential works of children’s literature.

The illustrator: John Tenniel (1820–1914), famed for his work in Punch, created the definitive visual world of Alice, inseparable from the text and central to its enduring appeal.