Fore-Edge painting.- Carroll (Lewis) Through the Looking Glass, and

Fore-Edge painting.- Carroll (Lewis) Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, illustrations by John Tenniel, occasional spotting and browning, mostly to frontispiece and title page, light rubbing to extremities, fore-edge painting beneath the gilt depicting Alice in the woods with Tweedledee and Tweedledum recreating the illustration on page 67, Macmillan and Co., 1883 § Collingwood (Stuart Dodgson), The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll, first edition, original cloth covers bound in, the odd spot, fore-edge painting of a portrait of Carroll next to a scene depicting Cook, Duchess, Cheshire Cat, Baby, and Alice, T. Fisher Unwin, 1898, frontispieces, half-titles, modern morocco, overall excellent, g.e., 8vo. (2)

Estimate:£1,500

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