Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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1869, Thirteenth Thousand (=6th ed), Near Fine, in a superb Sangorski & Sutcliffe, red calf, gilt edge tooling & gilt devices (Alice & pig Cheshire cat), to both boards. Spine, raised bands, gilt title, tooling & devices. Internally, half title, printers device to verso, tissue guarded frontis, [12], [1], 2-192 pp, 42 illustrations (B&W), a.e.g, small binders stamp to epd, printed by R Clay, Sons, and Taylor, marbled endpapers, a few tiny very occasional spots, ink gift inscription to title page (1869 same year as publication). An early copy of Alice in a stunning binding, housed in a custom slipcase. (119*178 mm). (Madan 46d). The story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures..... Dodgson, author, mathematician, and photographer, whose writing meant a great deal to him, would often stand at his upright desk, and write for ten hours a day. He turned out a myriad of works. See ODNB.