1915 Rare Altemus Edition - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass.
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Author: CARROLL, Lewis (John Tenniel, illustrator)
Title: Alice's adventures in wonderland and Through the looking glass and what Alice found there.
Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, no date (circa 1915).
Language: Text in English.
Size : 8.5 " X 6 ".
Pages: 339 pages.
Binding: Very good original decorated full cloth binding (overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing, endpaper inner hinges worn but still tight - as shown, ex-libris without a name on the first endpaper - as shown, small hole on the last blank endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with all the 7 beautiful full-page color illustrations.
The book: Rare in this nice binding and attractive Altemus edition of Alice's adventures in wonderland and Through the looking glass and what Alice found there.
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.