Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll - 1872

London: Macmillan And Co., 1872 1872 Through The Looking Glass ( And What Alice Found There). Front board half loose from the book. Front black and white frontis, tissue covered. Surface rubbed off one side of one edge of the spine (two inches). Tenth Thousand. A first edition, second issue with "wabe" on page 21. Hardcover with the original red cloth covered boards with the Queen in cameo on the front and back boards. All edges in full gilt. The book still has its original dark slate blue end papers. Bottom corners bent, slightly frayed. Some wrinkling to the cloth back board, small wrinkle to front board . Front end paper half loose from the front board.<P> Over all an extremely presentable and scarce copy in the rare original board's,still retaining both the original dark slate blue papers and the original tissue guard.<p> All pages and illustrations are present and very clean with tight readable binding. Including a stunning 50 illustrations by John Tenniel. About this item: Alice in Wonderland was originally printed in Oxford at the Clarendon Press in June 1865, but this was recalled when lewis Carrolll heard the book's illustrator was dissatisfied with the quality of the printing. Only 23 of those original now exist. The Macmillan edition, Although dated 1866, the edition was ready by November 1865, in time for the Christmas market, and was published in a print run of 4000 copies. The copy of Through the Looking-Glass is the first edition: it was published for the Christmas market and bears the following year's date. It was actually published in December 1871, in an edition of 9,000 copies.