1870 RARE Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Tenniel Illustrated Fantasy Classic

1870 RARE Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Tenniel Illustrated Fantasy Classic

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t.”

– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll’s landmark masterpiece, ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,’ was first published in 1865. This fascinating fantasy tale of a young girl falling down a rabbit hole, is surely one of the most iconic pieces of literature for all time. It has been adapted into many different versions of film, most notably by Disney in 1951.

A fine 1870 early edition of “Alice in Wonderland”, featuring forty-two of Tenniel’s bizarre, cartoon illustrations including a charming cover board illustration. Tenniel’s illustrations are often considered the best of the ‘Alice’ illustrations.

Item number: #25118

Price: $750

CARROLL, Lewis

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel.

London : Macmillan and Co. 1870. Twenty-Fourth Thousand.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [10], 192, [2]
  • Illustrated throughout
• References: PMM 354; Carroll Handbook 44
  • PMM: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its hardly less famous sequel Through the Looking Glass (1872), although ostensibly written for children are unique among ‘juveniles’ in appealing equally if not more strongly to adults. Written by an Oxford don, a clergyman, and a professional mathematician, they abound in characters—the White Knight, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty—who are part of everybody’s mental furniture. And the philosophic profundity of scores, if not hundreds, of these characters’ observations, long household words wherever English is spoken, gains mightily from the delicious fantasy of their setting”
• Provenance:
  • Bookplate – Cedric Jones
  • Handwritten – Jessie Shuft, 1869
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Original red cloth binding
• Size: ~7.5in X 5.25in (19cm x 13cm)

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