Through the Looking Glass: And What Alice Found There , looking-glass ,True first edition of the second part of the classic fantasy , with the original reading ("wade" for "wabe") at the end of line 2 of "Jabberwocky" (page 21). Richard Clay London, Col by Carroll, Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] Illustrator: John Tenniel ,Contains fifty black and white wood engraved illustrations by John Tenniel. Engraved B/W Frontispiece with Foxed Tissue Guard and illustrations throughout. Black coated endpapers. Origi - 1872

Macmillan and Co, London,, 1872 HARDBACK NODJ ISSUED, 1872, 1st edition, 1st ISSUE. with 1872 on Title pg, Page 21 has wade instead ' wabe'. , VG-/GOOD, AS-IS, NOJACKET , 8vo. 225 pgs + Advert leaf at end for works of Lewis Carroll. Spine Cvr with Titles & Publisher in Gold Gilt on Spine with MUCH rub, wear scuff there & tiny spine cvr end chips, Title spine Barely readable, , all outer pgs edges Gold gilt. Gilt lines, 5 X 7 1/2 in. Interior relatively nice tight clean some wear Fox & few protruding pgs but Holding tight, Printed pages in publisher's Original red cloth with gilt lettering and GILT decoration of Royal QUEEN wearing Crown & Holding Scelpter has rub, wear and all Outer Pgs gilt edges. A reasonably presentable book with overall clean boards and pages. Book has backstrip worn and cockled, some wear at the edges, lightly marked and scuffed, occasional foxing and a few minor marks. Book conservation: Internal repairs to the spine, re-backed retaining the original cloth and new White endpapers. Light bubbling Cvr extremities 7 some spine repair .Richard Clay London, colophon Design on Last pg, Although it makes no reference to the events in the earlier book, the themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May, on Alice's birthday (May 4),[1] uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on November 4 (the day before Guy Fawkes Night),uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.