Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there
By: by Lewis Carroll [pseud.] ; with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1893
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: English Fantasy fiction; Chess; Juvenile fiction; Animals; Twins; Flowers
Notes: "Sixtieth thousand."

Sign A⁶, B-Z⁴, AA-FF⁴.

From the library of Harcourt Amory.

On front pastedown: Harcourt Amory illustrated bookplate of Lewis Carroll ex libris, with quote on banner, "Life, what is it but a dream?"; and Harvard College Library's printed bookplate dated 1927, "From the library of Harcourt Amory, Class of 1876."

Presentation inscription in black ink on front endpaper: "Margaret Day, to cheer up her sick folk, from Lewis Carroll (per MM).  Kidderminster. June 4, 1898."

Rubber stamped in dark purple ink on title page in all caps: "Presented by the author for the use of Mechanics' Institutes, reading rooms, &c., Jan. 1894." One of three known copies (and one of four in original cloth) of the "Mechanics' Institute" edition (see Sotheby's July 2018 e-catalogue of The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part VIII, lot 32).

Publisher's advertisements: [2] pages at end.

Bound in publisher's original sand-grain dark red cloth over boards; blind tooled with triple line fillets with circular vignettes of Red and White Queens on upper and lower boards, respectively, with "Presented for the Use of Mechanics' Institutes Reading Rooms Etc." on upper board above the vignette. Triple line rules at head and tail of spine with publisher's name and device in blind, and short title in gilt.  In CMI case, 21 cm.