ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Published by William Heinemann. 1st. 1907
Almost very good condition. Alice was the first important and popular work to be submitted to a public process of re-illustration having come out of copyright in 1907. Rackham was the first artist to follow Tenniel and, in doing so, provoked much comment, most of it unfavourable. In anticipating such an attack, Heinemann, with clever advertising and editorship, ensured that Rackham's undeniably beautiful Alice attained a rate of sales which Rackham was never to achieve again. 13 superb colour plates plus 14 b/w drawings. Green cloth, black titles, gilt vignette to front cover. Green/white pictorial endpapers. 161 pages.
Spine and corners bumped, with some wear. Covers are unevenly faded, with some browning. Foxing scattered throughout, with heavier browning to pages 46-47.
Stock no. 1607744
