Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there

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1st ed, 1st issue, Near Fine, 1872, in a superb Sangorski & Sutcliffe full red calf, gilt edge tooling, gilt character devices to both boards (Red & White Queens). Spine, raised bands, gilt titles, tooling & devices. Internally, half title, tissue guarded frontis, [12], [1], 2-224 pp, [2] adverts, [1] printers device, 50 wood-engraved illustrations by John Tenniel, a.e.g. red marbled endpapers, binders stamp to epd, very occasional spot, housed in its custom maroon cloth slipcase. A stunning copy of the first edition, first issue, of one of the most collectible of books. (123*178 mm). (Gumuchian 78. Allibone 498. Madan 84). (wade for wabe on p21 & p98) 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.