Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, inscribed to political cartoonist John Proctor.

• Lewis Carroll (English).
• Illustrated by John Tenniel.
• London: Macmillan & Co., 1868.
• Thirteenth thousand.
• Inscribed by Dodgson in black ink on the half-title "John Proctor, Esq/ from the Author/ Oct. 1868".
• Bound in the publisher's gilt stamped red cloth, dark green pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt, Burn binders ticket to rear pastedown.

Proctor was a political cartoonist, working profusely for Judy and later Fun. John (Puck) Proctor was mentioned as an artist approached by Dodgson to illustrate Through the Looking-Glass after Tenniel's initial refusal (he finally relented). There is a letter from Proctor to Dodgson (Carroll) turning down the offer in the Dodgson Family archives.