CARROLL, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland.

First deluxe limited edition of Arthur Rackham's illustrated rendition of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

London: William Heinemann, [1907].

$3,600.00

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First deluxe limited edition of Arthur Rackham's illustrated rendition of the beloved children's classic. Quarto, original publisher's full ivory buckram with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with thirteen color plates mounted onto brown paper and additional line illustrations throughout the text. One of 1100 numbered copies, this is number 573. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.

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).