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Ca. 1902

Through the Looking-Glass

And What Alice Found There

By Lewis Carroll

With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel

Alphonse Mucha–Style Binding by Eva Daniell

Rare Antique Book ~ Art Nouveau ~ Decorative-Cloth Publisher’s Binding ~ Illustrated ~ Fairy Tale ~ Fantasy Classic ~ Sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Publisher:

New York: Hurst & Company, no date, circa 1902.

Features:

First edition in this format (no statement of edition, no additional printings listed).

Measures 6 x 4.3 inches.

Original decorative-cloth and paper publisher’s binding: white cloth with embossed silver-gilt stamping and a lithographed color panel by Eva Daniell in the Art Nouveau style of Czech/Parisian artist Alphonse Mucha on the front and back.

Textblock top edge gilt.

Frontispiece and extra vignette title page.

Illustrated throughout.

189 pages.

Condition:

Very Good –.

The covers are generally clean and bright with wear to the edges and corners, spotting, and smudging. The hinges are stretched but the textblock is square and solid. The pages are very clean and bright with a minor spot, smudge, corner crease, or small closed tear to only a few pages. Darkening to the endpapers. No writing or marking.