Ca. 1902
Through the Looking-Glass
And What Alice Found There
By Lewis Carroll
With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel
Alphonse Mucha–Style Binding
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 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.
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