1920 Rare Book - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Frank Adams
Author: CARROLL, Lewis. (Frank Adams, illustrator).
Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Stories old and new).
Publisher: London, Glasgow, Bombay, Blackie & Son, Ltd., no date (circa 1920).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7 " X 5 ".
Pages: 126 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original publisher’s decorative cream cloth binding with green Art Nouveau-style design to the boards and spine, featuring a mounted color illustration on the front cover. Spine lettered and decorated in green (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with all the 4 beautiful full-page colour plates by Frank Adams.
The book: A charming Edwardian edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, issued as part of Blackie & Son’s popular Stories Old and New series. Designed for young readers, the series paired carefully prepared texts with generous illustration programs and decorative bindings. Frank Adams’s illustrations present Wonderland in a vivid and narrative-driven style, emphasizing costume, setting, and character interaction. The result is an engaging and visually appealing interpretation of Carroll’s classic, distinct from the Tenniel tradition yet firmly rooted in early 20th-century illustrated book design.
The illustrator: Frank Adams (1871-1944) established himself as a picture book illustrator in the early 1900s with crisp and witty color images. These, and later illustrations for Blackie, show the influence of London Sketch Club members, especially Cecil Aldin and John Hassall.
The author: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark – all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.