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London: Macmillan & Co., 1877, 1877. PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., forty-fourth thousand, illustrated By John Tenniel, inscribed by Dodgson on the half-title "Mariella York Powell, from the Author. Nov. 23, 1897", in black ink. One of the few copies bound in the scarce white paper/leatherette binding, reproducing the gilt decoration of the red cloth editions, all edges gilt, black pastedowns and endapers. Internally clean and bright, spine neatly relined retaining the original spine, back corners lightly rubbed, general handling, overall still VERY GOOD, housed in a 1/4 red morocco slipcase. RBH record only 2 presentation copies ever appearing at auction in the white binding in the last 43 years. The last in 2018 and sold for $19,800. Mariella York Powell was the daughter of Frederick York Powell who was close friends with John Butler Yeats whom the artist first met on his move to Bedford Park, London in the late 1880's.

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.