Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
CARROLL, Lewis Charles VAN SANDWYK, [Illus.]
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
London: The Folio Society, 2022
8vo., original brick-red publisher’s cloth, prettily and elaborately blocked and bordered in black and gold featuring an inlaid image of the white rabbit inside a border of thistles, roses, and topped with a gilt crown; lettered in gilt along backstrip with publisher’s device to foot; decorative map endpapers in pale yellow showing Wonderland; pp. [xv], 4-148, [viii]; copiously illustrated throughout with line drawings in both black and white and full colour, some double page, as well as numerous decorative initials and embellishments; together in the decorative card slipcase; fine, as issued.
Third printing of this smaller format edition, which includes the new binding and slipcase, and watercolour added by the illustrator to some of the drawings. Signed by Charles van Sandwyk to the half title.
A beautifully-produced edition of Carroll’s children’s classic, one of the best-known children’s stories of the Victorian period. Inspired by a ‘golden afternoon’ boating on the river in Oxfordshire, in which Carroll passed the time telling stories to the daughters of his friend Henry Liddell (Alice, Lorina and Edith), the tale follows the titular character as she travels down a rabbit hole to a dream-like world, where she meets a hookah-smoking caterpillar, a grinning cheshire cat, a mad hatter and many other characters which have now been embedded in the consciousness of popular culture. The book has never been out of print, and has been translated into 174 languages worldwide.
With the original first edition of 1865 featuring wood engravings by John Tenniel, van Sandwyk has taken great pains to preserve the integrity of the original Alice, whilst adding his own interpretations. Illustrations include a wonderful title page showing the caterpillar reading a newspaper (‘Who’s Who in Wonderland, Croquet results, etc.), a gryphon dozing under a tree with a plate of Battenberg by his side, and of course the classic scenes of the Mad Hatter’s tea party, playing cards painting the roses red, and others.
CARROLL, Lewis Charles VAN SANDWYK, [Illus.]
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
London: The Folio Society, 2022
8vo., original brick-red publisher’s cloth, prettily and elaborately blocked and bordered in black and gold featuring an inlaid image of the white rabbit inside a border of thistles, roses, and topped with a gilt crown; lettered in gilt along backstrip with publisher’s device to foot; decorative map endpapers in pale yellow showing Wonderland; pp. [xv], 4-148, [viii]; copiously illustrated throughout with line drawings in both black and white and full colour, some double page, as well as numerous decorative initials and embellishments; together in the decorative card slipcase; fine, as issued.
Third printing of this smaller format edition, which includes the new binding and slipcase, and watercolour added by the illustrator to some of the drawings. Signed by Charles van Sandwyk to the half title.
A beautifully-produced edition of Carroll’s children’s classic, one of the best-known children’s stories of the Victorian period. Inspired by a ‘golden afternoon’ boating on the river in Oxfordshire, in which Carroll passed the time telling stories to the daughters of his friend Henry Liddell (Alice, Lorina and Edith), the tale follows the titular character as she travels down a rabbit hole to a dream-like world, where she meets a hookah-smoking caterpillar, a grinning cheshire cat, a mad hatter and many other characters which have now been embedded in the consciousness of popular culture. The book has never been out of print, and has been translated into 174 languages worldwide.
With the original first edition of 1865 featuring wood engravings by John Tenniel, van Sandwyk has taken great pains to preserve the integrity of the original Alice, whilst adding his own interpretations. Illustrations include a wonderful title page showing the caterpillar reading a newspaper (‘Who’s Who in Wonderland, Croquet results, etc.), a gryphon dozing under a tree with a plate of Battenberg by his side, and of course the classic scenes of the Mad Hatter’s tea party, playing cards painting the roses red, and others.
CARROLL, Lewis Charles VAN SANDWYK, [Illus.]
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
London: The Folio Society, 2022
8vo., original brick-red publisher’s cloth, prettily and elaborately blocked and bordered in black and gold featuring an inlaid image of the white rabbit inside a border of thistles, roses, and topped with a gilt crown; lettered in gilt along backstrip with publisher’s device to foot; decorative map endpapers in pale yellow showing Wonderland; pp. [xv], 4-148, [viii]; copiously illustrated throughout with line drawings in both black and white and full colour, some double page, as well as numerous decorative initials and embellishments; together in the decorative card slipcase; fine, as issued.
Third printing of this smaller format edition, which includes the new binding and slipcase, and watercolour added by the illustrator to some of the drawings. Signed by Charles van Sandwyk to the half title.
A beautifully-produced edition of Carroll’s children’s classic, one of the best-known children’s stories of the Victorian period. Inspired by a ‘golden afternoon’ boating on the river in Oxfordshire, in which Carroll passed the time telling stories to the daughters of his friend Henry Liddell (Alice, Lorina and Edith), the tale follows the titular character as she travels down a rabbit hole to a dream-like world, where she meets a hookah-smoking caterpillar, a grinning cheshire cat, a mad hatter and many other characters which have now been embedded in the consciousness of popular culture. The book has never been out of print, and has been translated into 174 languages worldwide.
With the original first edition of 1865 featuring wood engravings by John Tenniel, van Sandwyk has taken great pains to preserve the integrity of the original Alice, whilst adding his own interpretations. Illustrations include a wonderful title page showing the caterpillar reading a newspaper (‘Who’s Who in Wonderland, Croquet results, etc.), a gryphon dozing under a tree with a plate of Battenberg by his side, and of course the classic scenes of the Mad Hatter’s tea party, playing cards painting the roses red, and others.