"Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There" by Lewis Carroll. London: MacMillan, 1872. First edition
In the Victorian age most book owners felt that any book worth keeping deserved to be rebound, usually in some form of leather to become part of a personal library. This copy of "Through the Looking Glass...," which was re-bound in leather, retains the original publisher's binding inside.
The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865), “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There” (1872) was published seven years later and is set some six months later than the earlier book. This time Alice enters a fantastic world by stepping through a mirror. “Through the Looking Glass” is not quite as popular as “Wonderland” but it does include celebrated verses such as “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” and episodes involving “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” and “Humpty Dumpty.” The book features fifty in-text illustrations by John Tenniel.
The author, Lewis Carroll, is a pseudonym for Reverend Charles Dodgson (1832-1898) who was a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson was awkward and is said to have had a crippling stammer around other adults. But around children the stammer melted away as he told them his nonsensical stories. He was a brilliant and imaginative artist whose “extravagantly absurd” stories and witty wordplay appealed to young people.
"Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There" by Lewis Carroll. London: MacMillan, 1872. First edition
In the Victorian age most book owners felt that any book worth keeping deserved to be rebound, usually in some form of leather to become part of a personal library. This copy of "Through the Looking Glass...," which was re-bound in leather, retains the original publisher's binding inside.
The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865), “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There” (1872) was published seven years later and is set some six months later than the earlier book. This time Alice enters a fantastic world by stepping through a mirror. “Through the Looking Glass” is not quite as popular as “Wonderland” but it does include celebrated verses such as “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” and episodes involving “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” and “Humpty Dumpty.” The book features fifty in-text illustrations by John Tenniel.
The author, Lewis Carroll, is a pseudonym for Reverend Charles Dodgson (1832-1898) who was a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson was awkward and is said to have had a crippling stammer around other adults. But around children the stammer melted away as he told them his nonsensical stories. He was a brilliant and imaginative artist whose “extravagantly absurd” stories and witty wordplay appealed to young people.