Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. by CARROLL, Lewis - 1872: With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel.

London: Macmillan and Co.,, 1872. An attractive copy in a charming contemporary amateur cloth dust jacket Octavo. Original red cloth, recased, spine lettered in gilt, triple rule border and central vignettes in gilt to covers, black-coated endpapers, gilt edges. With a contemporary red cloth dust jacket. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrations in the text. Binder's ticket to rear pastedown. Rubbing to extremities, slight wear to spine ends, various small marks and a little fingermarking to cloth, a remarkably bright copy; the jacket with water and ring marks to front panel and onto spine. First edition. As with the first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass was published for the Christmas market but bears the following year's date in its imprint. It was actually published in December 1871, in an edition of 9,000 copies. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 84.