Author: CARROLL. LEWIS.; TENNIEL. JOHN. ILLUSTRATES.
Title: ALICE IN WONDERLAND. --- & ---THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE.
Description: The Peter Pauper Press. Mount Vernon. New York. ND. c. 1945.sold3/12. TWO VOLUMES. Large 8vo, (8.4 x 6.1 inches). Both volumes Illustrated throughout, with forty and fifty line engravings respectively, by John Tenniel. The plates, and page numbers, are printed in red in Alice and green in Looking Glass Neat previous owners inscriptions (dated August 1945) on the front blank endpapers of each volume. Fine, clean copies in attractive 1940's full leather bindings by Inman. Full deep red morocco, two gilt ruled borders on boards and a previous owners name in small gilt lettering to the bottom front board of each book. Spines with three raised bands, each with gilt piping. The compartments decorated with gilt stamps of The Mad Hatter, within a decorative border. Other compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. A single gilt ruled line to the boards edges. Turn-ins fully decorated and double ruled in gilt. Decorative hand printed endpapers with yellow, black and red design. Yellow silk book-markers. A fine, and very attractive, pair of bindings on these wonderful books.

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