Alice and the looking glass book5/20/2023 ‘Alice is, in a word, a book of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsolete’" (Carpenter & Prichard, 102). "The two Alice books completed the reinstatement of the imagination, so long disapproved of by the opponents of fairy stories, to its proper place. Carroll delighted the three children by relating Alice's adventures, and eventually promised his favorite among the three, Alice Liddell, to write the story down for her. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) took the three small daughters of Dean Liddell of Christ Church on a boating trip up the Isis. In very good condition.Īlice's Adventures were "born on a golden afternoon" in July 1862, when the Rev. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers, with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. $400.00 Item Number: 136052Įarly printing of the immensely popular sequel to Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.ĬARROLL, Lewis.
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