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New York: Random House, [1946]. Two vols. 8vo. 150; 165,[1] pp. Colour frontispieces, colour-illust. title pages., colour illusts. throughout. Quarter-blue; Quarter-red cloth over colour-illust. boards, black & gilt spine labels (slight dustsoilng to spine, very slight rubbing to corners, very minor bumping head of 1 spine), w/ open-backed slipcase (colour plate mounted on side (old price notations, edgewear, minor bumping), still VG/VG- set. Reprint editions of these wonderful Alice in Wonderland tales.

London: MacMillan and Co, 1872. Octavo, two volumes, uniformly bound in full red morocco, all edges gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spines, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, original cloth bindings tipped in to rear of each volume. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an early printing. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There is an early printing. Illustrated by John Tenniel, text illustrated. A very nice set. Alice's Adventures were "born on a golden afternoon" in July 1862, when the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) took the three small daughters of Dean Liddell of Christ Church on a boating trip up the Isis. Carroll delighted the three children by relating Alice's adventures, and eventually promised his favorite among the three, Alice Liddell, to write the story down for her. Through the Looking-Glass can be seen as a mirror image of the Alice's Adventures. For example, the latter begins outdoors in the warmth of May… Read More