HANDSOMELY BOUND BY BAYNTUN RIVIERE
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Macmillan and Co., 1868.
Fourth edition (tenth thousand). 8vo. Finely bound in full red calf by Bayntun Riviere with gilt rules and five gilt vignettes of characters from the story on each cover. Raised bands to spine with gilt titles on two morocco title labels and four further gilt vignettes. Gilt dentelles to turn-ins and marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Original red cloth covers and spine bound in at the rear. Black and white frontispiece under tissue guard. Forty-one further illustrations by John Tenniel in line. A near fine copy, with a small chip to the lower title label, internally bright and clean with only two tape marks to the verso of the front free endpaper.
Published only two years after the first printing in 1866, in an exquisite Bayntun Riviere binding.
This classic story was thought up by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (pseudonym Lewis Carroll) on a summer's day on the river Isis near Oxford.
Williams, Madan and Green 46c.
Stock ID: 46149
£2,000.00
