CARROLL, Lewis. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

First edition of Arthur Rackham's Illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; finely bound in full morocco by Zaehnsdorf

London: William Heinemann, n.d. [c. 1907].

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First edition of Rackham's wonderfully illustrated rendition of Lewis Carroll's children's classic with the Rip Van Winkle advertisement opposite the title page and The Children and The Pictures advertisement at rear. Octavo, bound in full navy crushed levant morocco by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine, central gilt motif to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, original pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 13 full page color plates with lettered tissue-guards. In very good condition. Original green cloth front cover and spine bound in at rear.

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. "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).