(Williams, MacLean, Green & Crotch 84b Selwyn H. He did later change his mind about destroying the remaining copies of this edition, and instead favored rebinding it and distributing it to charitable institutions, as had been done with the first suppressed Alice. He asked Macmillan to destroy the remainder of the edition, which led to 'Through the Looking Glass' being out of print until 1897.
Only 60 copies had gone out when Carroll intervened. much as I should regret the having to sever a connection now lasted nearly 30 years, I shall feel myself absolutely compelled to do so, unless I can have some assurance that better care shall be taken, in future, to ensure that my books shall be of the best artistic quality attainable for the money" (Letters p.995). On receiving the first 6 copies of this issue, Carroll wrote a letter to Frederick Macmillan, stating that: "the book is worthless.
This had already been an issue for the first edition of the 1865 Alice, which was recalled after Tenniel complained about the quality of the printing. The illustrations were over-printed, the pages badly folded and it led to him threatening to terminate his contract with Macmillan. This suppressed issue was, according to Carroll, riddled with printing production faults. Copies rebound for the Mechanic's Institute were known, but it is only in the last few years that Selwyn Goodacre has managed to trace 4 copies in the original cloth, one of these now lost (Selwyn Goodacre, unpublished census). Up until as recently as 1990 Lovett noted that 'no copies of the 60th thousand in standard binding have been recorded' (p.21). Only 4 copies known to exist in the original red cloth. Housed in a custom half red morocco gilt over red cloth drop-back-box, gilt titles to spine, gilt tooling & titles to morocco label to upper board. Internally, half title, frontis,, ,, 2-224 pp, adverts, 50 illustrations, a.e.g., black endpapers, very slight pulling to one gathering, slightly cocked. Spine lightly sunned, gilt titles & tooling, edges bumped. In the original pictorial red cloth, gilt edge tooling. This weird and wonderful book includes the poems “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” a talking pudding, and that immortal line “Jam yesterday, jam tomorrow, but never jam today.” Lewis Carroll was the nom de plume of Charles Dodgson (1832-1890) an Anglican clergyman, photographer, and mathematician.The Suppressed 'Sixtieth Thousand' issue, presentation copy from the author to the Mechanics Institute with presentation ink-stamp to title. The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” finds Alice back in Wonderland and a piece in a surreal chess game. Download cover art Download CD case insert Through the Looking-Glass (version 2)
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