Carroll, Lewis.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [WITH] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

Harper & Brothers Publishers: New York and London, 1902. Forty-two (v.1) and forty (v.2) tipped-in black and white illustrations by Peter Newell, with photographs of Carroll and Newell frontispieces. First Peter Newell illustrated editions. Publisher's cream boards, illustratively stamped and titled in gilt, teg, lacking dust jackets. Octavos. xvii, 192, [1 Christmas greeting]; [ii], xvi, [ii], 211, [1]. 9" x 6" Lightly rubbed boards and gilt, moderately toned spines, bumped and rubbed corners, bookplate front pastedown, owner names to ffep, front hinge v. 2 just starting, but still holding firm, still very good, lacking dust jackets. Overall a square and internally clean copies. Item #237726

ALICE, ILLUSTRATED IN AMERICA

The story was inspired by a boat trip on the 4th of July with Robinson Duckworth and the three young daughters of Henry Liddell: Lorina, Alice, and Edith. Under the insistence of Alice, Carroll wrote down the story he told them while they were rowing on the river. Carroll received further encouragement to seek publication of his story by George Macdonald's family, whose children enjoyed the story. In honor of the original audience of Alice's adventure, Carroll based characters on them. Aside from Alice as her namesake throughout the book, in chapter three, A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, the Duck represents Duckworth, the Lory Lorina, the Eaglet Edith, and the Dodo Carroll himself, stemming from his real name Charles Dodgson.

Originally hesitant to tackle Carroll's beloved Alice, Peter Newell used advances in illustration reproduction to bring lush dimension to Alice's card and chess games, leaving a soft and whimsical touch on the story.

Price: $750.00