Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll illustrated by John Tenniel Published by Macmillan & Co Ltd London Macmillan’s Illustrated Pocket Classics for the Young 1904. First Edition Thus. Second Impression 1907 Printed by Richard Clay and Sons Ltd Bread Street Hill, Bungay, Suffolk N. 5.4.07 (on last advert page, photo) Illustrated throughout with classic Alice in Wonderland drawings by John Tenniel Forty-Two illustrations Tissue paper protector to frontispiece Poem to start Preface dated Christmas 1896 by Lewis Carroll ‘rather than let the little ones, for whom it was written, go without it’ ‘I am selling it at a price which is to me, much the same thing as giving it away.’ ‘Easter Greeting’ and ‘Christmas Greetings to a fairy from a child’ ( blank page to start and in-between with ‘turn over’ printed bottom right. Blank pages, clean. Publisher’s adverts for other titles. Small size hardback with blue cover; gold titles and to front embossed ‘M.M’ leaf emblem. Spine with gold titles and art nouveau flower decorations, gold. Plain on the back. Cover with scuffing at edges, small faded area to front, but otherwise in good shape. 179 pages, grubby marks affecting some pages, owner’s written inscription on front free endpaper, dated August 1909. Scarce copy Alice Collectors