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CARROLL, LEWIS [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge].
Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland * Through the Looking-Glass.
Together, 2 volumes. Half-titles.
Frontispiece in each volume and illustrations throughout by John Tenniel. 8vo, publisher’s
red cloth gilt, rebacked with original spines laid-down, all edges gilt, scattered soiling, cor-
ners soft; Alice’s Adventures with bound in copy of “An Easter Greeting to Every Child
Who Loves Alice” to front endpaper; closed tear touching letters repaired on pp. 121-22,
Pamela and Raymond Lister bookplate to front pastedown. Looking-Glass a first issue, with
“wade” for “wabe” on page 21; bound by Burn & Co. with their
ticket, 1-page publisher advertisement and 3-page
copy of “To All Child-Readers of Alice’s
Adventures inWonderland” bound in at
end; preserved in folding cloth case.
London: Macmillan, 1866;
1872
[4,000/6,000]
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPIES TO
BESSIE SLATTER
.
Alice’s Adventures is
the 1871 edition with a half-title, fron-
tis, and title-page for the 1866 edition
tipped-in. Each copy inscribed on the
half-title, “Bessie Slatter, from the Author”
(Alice), and “Elizabeth Anne Slatter, from
the Author, Christmas 1871” (Looking-
Glass). One of 100 presentation copies
Carroll sent on 8 December 1871. John
Slatter, Curate of Sandford-on-Thames, Vicar
of Streatley, and Rector of Whitchurch; his wife,
mother, and daughter Elizabeth (“Bessie”) were
close friends of the author, who visited and pho-
tographed them (Letters, Cohen ed., I:46, note 4).