1872 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 isnt.”

– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland



Lewis Carrolls landmark masterpiece, Alices 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 1872 early edition of “Alice in Wonderland”, featuring forty-two of Tenniels bizarre, cartoon illustrations including a charming cover board illustration. Tenniels illustrations are often considered the best of the Alice illustrations.



Item number: #20895

Price: $750



CARROLL, Lewis



Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel.



London : Macmillan and Co. 1872. 1st edition, Thirty-first thousand.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[10], 192, [2]

Illustrated throughout

References: PMM 354; Carroll Handbook 44

PMM: “Alices 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 everybodys 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: Handwritten – Kate Turnbull

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

Original red cloth binding

Size: ~7.5in X 5.25in (19cm x 13cm)



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