By Lewis Carroll
With Ninety-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel Including Sixteen In Colour
Published by MacMillan And Co Limited: London 1911
Notes:
All 16 Colour Illustrations are present. Binding has essentially collapsed with outer spine detached, loose clusters and some loose pages. 2 colour plates with old cellotape repairs to edge as shown. Lacks front blank endpaper otherwise book is complete with all pages and illustrations.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. His most notable works are
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. Some of Alice's nonsensical wonderland logic reflects his published work on mathematical logic.
"John Tenniel (1820 - 1914) was an English illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. An alumnus of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, he was knighted for artistic achievements in 1893, the first such honour ever bestowed on an illustrator or cartoonist.
Tenniel is remembered mainly as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over 50 years and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). Tenniel's detailed black-and-white drawings remain the definitive depiction of the Alice characters, with comic book illustrator and writer Bryan Talbot stating, "Carroll never describes the Mad Hatter: our image of him is pure Tenniel.
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