Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there

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1st ed, 1st issue, Near Fine, 1872. In 20c red half morocco over red cloth, circular gilt emblem to both boards, some gilt tooling. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, half title, [1], tissue guarded frontis, [12], [1], 2-224 pp, 50 wood-engraved illustrations by John Tenniel, a.e.g. red marbled endpapers, previous owners faint inscription to title. (183*122 mm). (Gumuchian 78. Allibone 498. Madan 84). (wade for wabe on p21) Dodgson, author, mathematician, and photographer, whose writing meant a great deal to him; It was the main course by which he could do something for others, to fulfill a deep religious desire to contribute something to humanity-it was his offering to God. After resigning his mathematical lectureship in 1881, at the age of forty-nine (he retained his studentship and resident privileges at Christ Church to the end), he devoted himself primarily to his writing. Often standing at his upright desk (he calculated that he could stand and write for ten hours a day), he turned out a myriad of works. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was followed in late 1871 by its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, and in 1876 by that longest and most revered nonsense poem in English, The Hunting of the Snark. See ODNB