Description

• 81st thousand [Macmillan, London, 1886]; Octavo; [4 blank], [12], 192, [1 blank], [2 publisher’s ads], [5 blank] pages. With 41 b&w John Tenniel illustrations in-text & full-page frontis with tissue guard
• Two-thirds leather over decorative boards, five raised bands, ornate gold decorations & titling on spine, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers matching cover boards; leather rubbed at extremities, spine sunned, very occasional light spotting on pages; an excellent copy
• Early editions of Alice are always desirable and this copy has been exquisitely bound by esteemed binders Sangorski & Sutcliffe
• Established in London in 1901, Sangorski & Sutcliffe soon became renowned for their decadent bindings [including The Great Omar, a bejewelled copy of The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam, which sank with the Titanic]
• This edition includes the classic Tenniel illustrations now synonymous with the title
• Quite simply, a truly beautiful item!