Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.

CARROLL, Lewis.

Item Number: 136052

New York: Worthington Co, n.d..

Early printing of the immensely popular sequel to Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers, with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. In very good condition.

Alice's Adventures were "born on a golden afternoon" in July 1862, when the Rev. 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. 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. "The two Alice books completed the reinstatement of the imagination, so long disapproved of by the opponents of fairy stories, to its proper place. ‘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). Through the Looking-Glass “equals its predecessor in the brilliance of its nonsense, and features many characters who quickly became immortals of children’s literature… the Red Queen, the White Queen, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, and the White Knight” (Carpenter & Prichard, 527).