[10], 192 pp. Half-title. Frontispiece and wood-engraved illustrations after John Tenniel. 7½x5, original red cloth stamped in gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition, second issue.

One of the most important children's books ever written. Carroll published Alice in Wonderland with Macmillan in London in 1865. However, John Tenniel was reputedly dissatisfied with the printing of the illustrations and convinced Carroll to suppress the book at his own expense. Only about 20 copies of this 1865 Macmillan first issue are speculated to survive, most in institutional collections. Rather than discard the remaining sheets they were sold to D. Appleton in New York and new title pages were printed and tipped in. Thus the present is the textually identical to the first issue but with a cancel title page. This copy has the B in "By" directly above the T in "Tenniel" on the title page and with the hyphen in "Rabbit Hole" on contents page.