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Decorated embossed red/gilt cloth hard back creased/fraying & slightly torn edges/blemished/bumped. +227pp.+ 3pp. incorpoating "Works by Lewis Carroll". Includes 50 b/w illustrations by John Tenniel. creased & partly detached tissue-guard to b/w frontispiece. Very dark green to inside cover/fep; cream (albeit discoloured, foxed & blemished) to inside rear cover/rear ep. Gilt to page edges. Pages foxed, blemished & beginning to brown. Previous owners' inscriptions on first tile page - dated "Nov.15.90" - and on rear of frontispiece (undated). Strain on hinges. Given book age, a Fair copy.

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel by Lewis Carroll, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It describes Alice's further adventures as she moves through a mirror into another fantastical world where she meets more peculiar characters and experiences a series of whimsical events.