Carroll, Lewis
Le avventure d'Alice nel paese delle meraviglie
£875
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 [but later]. First edition in Italian, 8vo, original red cloth (secondary binding with covers ruled in blind), pictorial roundels gilt to covers, top edge gilt, illustrations by John Tenniel throughout, a fine copy, together with 13 others, including others by Carroll (Alice, German edition, Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, [1869], spine rolled inner hinges split, and English edition, eighty-third thousand, 1886, spine rolled, front free endpaper detached; and Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded,1889-93; all in original cloth), limited editions (Clare Leighton, illustrator, The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, 1929, one of 1500 copies signed by Leighton; Caradoc Press, The Defence of Poesie ... by Sir Philip Sidney, 1906, one of 350 copies, 4to, original quarter sheep; Ballantyne Press, Unto this Last by John Ruskin, 1902, one of 400 copies on paper, 4to, original vellum; Shakespeare Head Press, Nimphidia, 1924); and Robert Burns, Kilmarnock Complete Edition of Burns's Poems and Songs, Kilmarnock: James McKie, 1869-70 (one of 600 sets, signed by the publisher, 4 volumes, 8vo, original boards) (13)