Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there

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Artist/Maker	Macmillan & Co. (publisher) Dalziel Brothers (printer) Carroll, Lewis (author) Tenniel, John (illustrator)
Place of origin	London (published)

With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. 224 pages : illustrations. Library's copy case bound in red cloth with decorative panel stamped in gold on upper and lower covers. Gilt edges. Navy blue endpapers. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown reads: 'Bound by / Burn / & Co.' Signed and gathered in eights. Wood-engraved frontispiece and wood-engraved text illustrations by the Dalziel Brothers after Tenniel.

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Categories	National Art Library Children & Childhood Illustration Books
Object type	Book
Title	Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there (published title)
Materials and techniques	Case bound book illustrated with electrotypes from wood engravings. Printing Ink Paper (Fiber Product) Cloth Printing Wood Engraving Electrotyping
Brief description	Book, Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there by Lewis Carroll. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872. Duke Collection, accession number: AAD/2006/4/12.
Physical description	With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. 224 pages : illustrations. Library's copy case bound in red cloth with decorative panel stamped in gold on upper and lower covers. Gilt edges. Navy blue endpapers. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown reads: 'Bound by / Burn / & Co.' Signed and gathered in eights. Wood-engraved frontispiece and wood-engraved text illustrations by the Dalziel Brothers after Tenniel.
Dimensions	Height: 19cm
Credit line	Given by Joan Duke
Object history	Library's copy previously owned by Beatrix Potter and donated to the Library by Joan Duke in October 2006.
Other number	AAD/2006/4/12 - V&A Archive number
Collection	National Art Library
Library number	38041005058086

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Record created	October 31, 2019
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1516017/through-the-looking-glass-and-book-carroll-lewis/

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