Alice’s adventures in Wonderland

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1866. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. Frontispiece and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel. Exquisite full morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers ruled in blind with the same gilt designs as on the original cover (Alice on the front, the Cheshire Cat on the back), spine in compartments with gilt designs and the author, title and date in gilt, intricately decorated gilt dentelles, with the original binding bound in on 3 separate leaves (front, spine and rear covers). Overall a gorgeous clean copy preserved in a cloth box. First edition, second issue, the first practicably obtainable issue of the original sheets, comprising the sheets of the suppressed 1865 first printing with the Appleton cancel title page. “This issue consisted of 1000 copies, bound in England, with the new tipped-in title-page printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford ... Dodgson authorized the sale to America (after consulting Tenniel) on 10 Apr. 1865.”

see Printing & the Mind of Man, 354 (note); Williams, Maddan, Green, 44.