?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
PATRONS' COPY OF "CALCULATED PANDEMONIUM" (PENNYROYAL PRESS.) Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Printed in red, blue, and black. 92 wood engravings by Barry Moser; separate suite of engravings all signed by Moser. Folio, gilt-pictorial full deep berry morocco by Gray Parrot; suite housed a cloth chemise; both laid into a 1/4 gilt-lettered morocco and cloth box. West Hatfield, 1982
number 27 of only 50 deluxe copies for patrons signed by moser, and with an original signed drawing in ink, of a biscuit tin, another signed pencil drawing of Tweedledee (or Tweedledum), and the extra suite. In addition, Moser has inscribed and signed this copy to a friend and added an original green ink sketch of a printer's rattle. "There is greater cohesion in `Looking-Glass' than in `Alice.' I have never been able to understand why the critics called the pictures `dark.' I intended them to be whimsical and humorous displaying a kind of calculated pandemonium"--Moser, in The Pennyroyal Checklist, 1986.
