Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 2,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
THE COMPLETE ALICE ILLUSTRATIONS CARROLL, LEWIS; and TENNIEL, SIR JOHN. Sir John Tenniel's Illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass * A Study of Sir John Tenniel's Wood-Engraved Illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. Together, 3 volumes. Comprising: 2 plate volumes and 1 volume of accompanying text. 92 plates (91 plates from the original wood blocks engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, 1 plate [Alice & the Dodo] from an electrotype), loose as issued, each plate with captioned window card wrappers, contents clean with no evidence of handling; preserved in two morocco-backed solander boxes, a few scattered surface imperfections; Otis Skinner Blodget bookplates. Text volume: De Freitas, Leo John. Illustrated with 3 mounted plate examples. 8vo, original cloth, gilt morocco label on front cover; contents clean; Otis Skinner Blodget bookplate and blindstamp. All printed by Jonathan Stephenson at the Rocket Press for Macmillan; the whole slipcased together. London: Macmillan, 1988

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limited edition, number 179 of 250 sets. an extraordinary work, comprising prints of all the original illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, all but one printed by Jonathan Stephenson from the original wood-blocks engraved by George and Edward Dalziel from drawings by John Tenniel.