Lot 58 , Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. Macmillan and Co., 1867. Ninth Thousand. [Together with] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. With Fifty

° Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. Macmillan and Co., 1867. Ninth Thousand. [Together with] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. Macmillan and Co., 1872 [1871]. First edition, first issue. Uniformly bound by Zaehnsdorf for Sotheran in full red morocco, with circular gilt pictorial devices to the upper and lower boards, double gilt ruled borders, spine with gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettered and rules in compartments. a.e.g., marbled endpapers with inner dentelles gilt.
£1,500-2,000

Condition:
first issue of Through the Looking-Glass, with “wade” for “wabe” on p. 21. Adventures: [10],192.pp. (without contents leaf?); Looking Glass [12], 224,[3] pp. Even fading to spines, tissue guard to frontis in Adventures with small tear, some occasional soiling to contents including half title, edge of title and some margins, Looking glass with some occasional spotting/soiling. upper board of Looking glass with a few small stains, small abrasion to gilt on top edge to Adventures.