August 2022 Catalogue

– 13 – A u g u s t 2 0 2 2 “Curiouser And Curiouser!”: First Editions Of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking-Glass, In Full Morocco-Gilt By Zaehnsdorf 13. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. WITH: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London, 1866, 1872. Two volumes. Octavo, modern full brown morocco gilt. $22,000. First editions of “the greatest of all English stories for children” (Muir, 139), with the original cloth for each volume bound in at rear, beautifully bound by Root. “Historians of children’s literature universally agree that the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland marks the liberation of children’s books from the restraining hand of the moralists… The two Alice books… completed the reinstatement of the imagination, so long disapproved of by the opponents of fairy stories, to its proper place. Alice is, in a word, a book of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsolete” (Carpenter & Prichard, 102). First published and authorized English edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, preceded only by the extraordinarily rare suppressed 1865 London edition, of which only about 20 copies are known to exist, and the scarce New York edition of 1866. First edition, first issue, of Through the Looking-Glass, with “wade” on page 21. Bookplates. Fine condition.

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