Description: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND LEWIS CARROLL - MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1891 EIGHTY-FOURTH THOUSAND Offferd here a copy o Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, published by Macmillan in 1891, eighty-fourth thousand.This copy is the red cloth six shillings edition, as was the first edition of 1865.Bound in the original red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine with triple ruled spine edges. Triple ruled borders to both boards. With gold vignettes; Alice and the pig baby on the front and the Cheshire cat on the rear within triple ruled gilt roundels. and triple ruled gilt borders. Page edges all gilt finished.Half title page, frontispiece with tissue guard, title page, introductory poem:"All in the golden afternoon",preface to the 1886 79th thousand edition, and contents page.[xii] 192 pages, plus four pages of Macmillan adverts for other works by Lewis Carroll, including a "Specimen page" from "Alice's Adventures Underground", the manuscript facsimile edition of the Alice book.With a frontispiece, and forty-two illustrations all by Sir JohnTenniel, 5.25 X 7.5 inches. A very good copy,with no wear to the cloth which is very sound.The gilt lettering and vignettes on the spine on front and rear boards are all quite bright. Internally the binding is quite solid with sound hinges,there is a slight lean to the spineThe pages are very clean throughout.No marking or inscriptions etc.All complete and in good order with no loose or missing pages. Very good ninteenth century copy of this classic Victorian children's book.
Price: 456 GBP
Location: Fairford
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Binding: Hardback
Language: English
Author: Lewis Carroll
Character Family: Alice in Wonderland
