ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND BY LEWIS CARROLL 1886 FINE LEATHER BINDING BY ROOT

[CARROLL, LEWIS (Dodgson, Rev. Charles Lutwidge)]. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886.

Eighty-second thousand. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (185 x 130 mm.), pp. [12], 192, [2 pages advertisements]. Rebound by Root of London, England, in stunning half blue morocco (signed on the front endleaf with an ink pallet). Spine gilt with four raised bands, centre tool features vignette of Alice swaddling a pig. All page edges gilt. Marbled paper-covered boards and endpapers. Half-title present. Beautifully illustrated throughout by John Tenniel, including a frontispiece. 2 pages of publisher's advertisements to rear. Red silk page marker. Condition: NEAR FINE. Slight darkening to edges of boards and a few minor spots internally, otherwise an immaculate copy and without previous ownership markings.