[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Carroll, Lewis Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Description
London: William Heinemann/New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., (1907). First and limited edition, #658/1,100 numbered copies, unsigned as issued (from a total edition of 1,130). 4to. (xii), (162), (2) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 12 tipped-in color plates, all tipped-in and all with tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Date inked onto title-page; some finger smudges to text block, offsetting from heavy brown paper, as usual. Full red goatskin, decorated in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; original illustrated endpapers bound in, book-plate sellotaped to same; by Zaehnsdorf for E. Joseph. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 28-29; Riall, pp. 78-79; Williams, p. 133
The first book in which Rackham's plates were distributed at the appropriate places throughout the text.
Provenance
From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Nicholas Wedge, Ossining, New York
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