Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-two Illustrations by John Tenniel. London: Macmillan, 1872. Thirty-Seventh Thousand. Pp, 192, with last page listing the Works of Lewis Carroll. Publisher’s red worn cloth boards with gilt ruled lines to edges and gilt image to front and rear. The cloth is stained and gilt worn in places, with fading to spine, lacks front free endpaper.

An early edition of Carroll’s most iconic children’s story – first published in 1865, and has now been reprinted and translated into more than 100 languages.