Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Overview:

  • Title: Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
  • Author: Lewis Carroll
  • Year: 1900
  • Publisher: A. Wessels Company
  • Price: $2.00
  • Pages: 255+[16]
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Omnibus
  • Title Reference: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • Notes:
    • New edition, two volumes in one (stated in The Dial listing)
    • Month from listing, "Books of the Week" N-Y Tribune 1900-11-10 ("4to.", no price)
    • Price from listing in "The Season's Books for the Young", The Dial 1900-10-01 p238 (annual Announcement List of Fall Books, continued).
    • WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports "[12] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm". Title page credits 16 full-page illustrations. One November 1899 advertisement of the two volumes promotes "collectively, some [24] illustrations in color, from an entirely new set of drawings made for this edition by Blanche McManus."
    • Some data from ABEbooks.com Title page shows (from bookseller image at ABEbooks.com 2016-07-23) -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by [LC] (ampersand, hyphen) -- With Sixteen Full-page Illustrations by [BM] -- New York A. Wessels Company Publishers Illustrated in b/w, red, and green bookseller states 7-1/4 x 9-3/4 in. and "the first NEW ARTIST to illustrate ALICE after the original Alice artist Sir John Tenniel"