CARROLL, Lewis. Illustrated by Nicholas Parry.

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

The Tern Press Limited Editions of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There; Signed by illustrator Nicholas Parry and Binder Mary Parry

Market Drayton: The Tern Press, 1997-2001.

$3,200.00

In Stock Item Number: RRB-148912

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The Tern Press signed limited edition of Lewis Carroll’s beloved children’s classic. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth-backed floral boards by Mary Parry with paper titles to the spines, illustrated with lithographs throughout. Boldly signed by illustrator Nicholas Parry and binder Mary Parry on the colophon page at the rear of volume one; also signed by both in volume two with the additional signature of their granddaughter Isabel Arrowsmith, the model for Alice. One of 90 numbered copies, volume one is number 11 and volume two is number 10. In near fine condition. Accompanied by the prospectus for Through The Looking-Glass laid in. A very attractive set.

Alice's Adventures were "born on a golden afternoon" in July 1862, when the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) took the three small daughters of Dean Liddell of Christ Church on a boating trip up the Isis. Carroll delighted the three children by relating Alice's adventures, and eventually promised his favorite among the three, Alice Liddell, to write the story down for her. Through the Looking-Glass can be seen as a mirror image of the Alice's Adventures. For example, the latter begins outdoors in the warmth of May 4 and uses the imagery of playing cards, while the former begins indoors on a snowy, cold November 4 and uses the imagery of chess. "The two Alice books completed the reinstatement of the imagination, so long disapproved of by the opponents of fairy stories, to its proper place. ‘Alice is, in a word, a book of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsolete’" (Carpenter & Prichard, 102).