1909 Bayntun-Riviere Binding - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with a poem by Austin Dobson.
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Author: Lewis Carroll. (Illustrator, Arthur Rackham).(With a poem by Austin Dobson).
Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with a poem by Austin Dobson.
Publisher: London, William Heinemann, 1919. Fourth Impression (stated).
Language: Text in English.
Size : 8 " X 6 ".
Pages: xi-161 pages.
Binding: Attractive Fine binding, finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full crimson morocco, the covers hand-tooled in gilt and palladium, the spine lettered in gilt with one line panels, hand-marbled endpapers, gilt edges Under a protective removable mylar cover. A very beautiful binding!
Content: Fine content (bright, tight and clean - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the colour frontispiece and the wonderful 12 colour plates with captioned tissue guards by Arthur Rackham.
The book: Scarce in such a wonderful Bayntun-Riviere Fine Binding! Beautiful Edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with a poem by Austin Dobson.
The illustrator : Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. He is recognised as one of the leading literary figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator.
Rackham's 51 colour pieces for the Early American tale became a turning point in the production of books since – through colour-separated printing – it featured the accurate reproduction of colour artwork. Some of his best-known works include the illustrations for Rip Van Winkle, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
The author : Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. The poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer, inventor and Anglican deacon.