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First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in the Sir John Tenniel illustrated dustwrapper. Textured endpapers. Illustrated throughout with 109 black and white plates by Sir John Tenniel, 13 plates and a black and white photograph by Lewis Carroll, and 52 plates by John Leech, Édouard Riou, F. W. Fairholt and many more. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with light bumping to the head of the spine and extremities, and light spotting to the upper edge. The contents, with a small previous owner's bookplate pasted in to the inner flyleaf, are otherwise clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the better than very good, rubbed, nicked and creased original dustwrapper, which is lightly faded to the spine, and has a touch of spotting on the inside. A lovely example. The definitive account of Sir John Tenniel's (1820-1914) illustrative career, first as a political cartoonist for Punch magazine and, crucially, as the artist behind the definitive depiction of Lewis Carroll's classic children's characters in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) and 'Through the Looking Glass' (1871).3 Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and a gilt motif to the upper board, in dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. With a blue ribbon marker. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, drawings and reproductions of Carroll's hand-written letters. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities very slightly rubbed, the top corner of the upper board with mild bumping. The contents, with some light spotting to the prelims and faintly to the text block edges are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly toned and dustmarked price-clipped dustwrapper that has some tiny nicks and short closed tears at the spine and flap folds. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Early edition. Original red cloth with titles and illustrations in black to the spine and upper board. Lacking the dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with five colour plates and further black and white line drawings by George Soper throughout. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities a little rubbed, the spine a touch faded. The contents, with a neat 1938 school award inscription to the front pastedown and endpaper and some offsetting to the free endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout. A beautifully illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll's classic children's novel. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Rene Cloke illustrated dustwrapper. With eight full page colour plates and line drawings tinted in colour throughout the text by Rene Cloke. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, a little toned and spotted to the blank endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that has several pieces of strengthening tape to the underside and a touch of fading to the spine. An attractively illustrated edition of "The Worlds Greatest Fairy Story" (publisher's blurb), subsequently reprinted by multiple publishers. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First UK edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original sage green cloth with titles in black to the upper board and spine and an illustration plate onlay to the upper board. Lacking the dustwrapper. Illustrated with eight colour plates and black and white decorations by Bessie Pease. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth scuffed to the lower board and rubbed at the spine tips and corners, the illustation onlay missing the top-right corner. There is a previous owner's inscription to the front free endpaper, some spotting to the closed text-block edge, prelims and occasionally throughout. A beautiful edition of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' with artwork by American illustrator Bessie Pease Gutmann who gives Alice and her world a distinctly soft, cherubic appeal. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition. Limited to 300 copies, of which this is number 231. Sewn pamphlet with thin paper wrapped cover. Very lightly foxed bookseller's note loosely laid in. A very good copy, with a tiny blue mark to the front cover and a toned patch to the title page. Featuring two letters from Lewis Carroll to Marion Terry of the theatrical Terry family, who were friends of his. Provenance: from the library of Martin Stone. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Two volumes. Author's presentation bindings of white textured paper-covered boards, imitating vellum, with gilt titles to the spines, gilt triple-ruled borders and gilt illustration motifs to the upper and lower boards. Inscribed presentation copies. Signed by the author. All edges gilt. 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', fifty-eighth thousand, with 42 black and white illustrations; 'Through the Looking Glass', forty-fourth thousand, with 50 illustrations by John Tenniel. Tissue guard to the frontispiece of 'Looking Glass'. Very good copies, the bindings firm, both with the spines slightly rolled. The lightly marked paper-covered boards are dusty and darkened, more so to the spines, 'Wonderland' with a clean square to the top corner of the upper board and the bottom corner of the lower board (from brass corner guards, since removed). Some light bumping and wear to the corners and spine tips of both volumes, and 'Looking Glass' has minor splitting at the bottom of the spine where it meets the front board, although in both cases the binding remains firm. 'Wonderland' bears the recipient's ownership name to the top right corner of the half title, above the author's presentation inscription, and has some creasing at the upper corner of the front endpaper. Both volumes are spotted to the prelims, with occasional finger marks and light spotting throughout. 'Looking Glass' is cracked (but holding firm) at the gutter of the half-title and has an autograph letter from the author, loosely laid in. An exceptional inscribed set of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, in the notably rare presentation bindings, and with a wonderful single family owned provenance. 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is inscribed in purple ink on the half-title "Ada Frost / from the author / Jan. 29. 1888."; 'Through the Looking Glass' is inscribed in black ink on the half-title "Mrs Dixon, / from the author. / July 18, / 1892". The recipient Ada Dixon, (née Frost, 1874-1964), was a professional child model who sat for sketches made by Dodgson in Mrs Shute's studio in 1888 (Letters 2: 692-93), where presumably this copy of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' was presented. 'Through the Looking Glass', inscribed some four years later was presented in celebration of Ada Frost's, (now Dixon) marriage, the accompanying letter, dated the same day as the author's inscription in the book, reads "Dear Mrs Dixon, I am so very much obliged to you for writing to me, and was very glad indeed to get your letter and to know that you still remember me as a friend, and that you have turned over another leaf in the book of the story of your life, and have found such pleasant reading on the other side! I wish, to your husband and you, all possible happiness. As you already have "Alice in Wonderland" I want you now to accept the sequel "Through the Looking Glass", which I will send you by parcel-post, bound in "bridal white", which I think is more appropriate, this time, than scarlet. If ever I find myself near enough to Chalk Farm, I will give myself the pleasure of calling. With very kind regards to your husband, I am sincerely yours, C. L. Dodgson". Dodgson had white, gilt-stamped copied bound exclusively for his use as presentation copies for his close friends and cherished acquaintances, typically keeping a few on hand to give as gifts as and when he needed them, naturally making this variant notably scarce. Whilst Dodgson is known primarily for his writing, he was also a keen amateur photographer and artist. He created thousands of photographs in the Victorian symbolist tradition formed by the likes of Julia Margaret Cameron and Oscar Gustave Rejlander, and illustrated his own written drafts, including a precursor to what would become 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', a hand written manuscript titled 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'. Ada Dixon was among many models who posed for Dodgson's photographs and sketches, and it was not uncommon for him to form friendships with them, exchanging letters and even attending their weddings. The most famous of his models is undoubtedly Alice's namesake herself, Alice Liddell, a daughter of Henry Liddell, who was the Dean of Christ Church College, Oxford, where Dodgson was a lecturer of mathematics. As well as employing them as photographic subjects, Dodgson would take the Liddell children out on rowing trips, and it was on one such trip that he first told a tale of the fantasy world through the rabbit hole, which Alice Liddell enjoyed so much that she begged him to write it down. Provenance: presented by the author to Ada Dixon (nee Frost) in 1888 and 1892, thence by family descent. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.