CARROLL, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
London: Macmillan , 1968.
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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Finely Bound by Bayntun
Finely bound example of Carroll's beloved children's classic. Octavo, bound in full tooled red morocco by Bayntun with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, vignette of the White Rabbit stamped in gilt to the front panel and the Queen of Hearts to the rear panel, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. With 42 black and white illustrations by John Tenniel including the tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
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. "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).
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