8vo. Half-title, with 42 illustrations by John Tenniel. (A few very occasional light spots.) 20th-century navy levant morocco, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettering in one, all edges gilt (spine a touch sunned); slipcase. Provenance: armorial bookplate on pastedown.

SECOND EDITION (i.e. FIRST AUTHORIZED EDITION), or the first published English edition, earliest state with the inverted “S” in the last line of the Contents page. For this new edition published November 1865 (but dated 1866 for the Christmas market) the book was re-set by the printer Richard Clay from a copy of the suppressed 1865 Alice, forming the basis for all future Macmillan editions. Green, Lewis Carroll pp.46-56; Grolier Children’s One Hundred, 35; Lovett 3; PMM 354 (note); Williams 10; Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 46.