"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. "
— Oscar Wilde
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939. [Children's] FIRST NONESUCH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 1165 [3]. With Tenniel's original in-text illustrations to the Alice books. Bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to red morocco label, marbled sides, sewn endbands. Contents and edges clean, exterior unmarked. Attractively presented in a recent leather binding. The complete works of one of the greatest authors of the nineteenth century, enhanced by the addition of the most influential of Alice illustrators, John Tenniel. Item #74727
Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Williams and Madan, p.223. Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.
Price: £375.00
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