1920 Rare Book - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with frontis by Margaret W. Tarrant

 

Author : Lewis Carroll.
Title : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Publisher : London and Melbourne : Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, no date (circa 1920's).
Language : Text in English
Size : 7.5 " X 5 "
Pages : 212 pages
Binding : Attractive and very good decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright and tight, name of a previous owner and Oxford's bookseller stamp on first endpaper - as shown). 
Illustrations : Illustrated with a nice frontispiece by Margaret W. Tarrant.

The book : Attractive and scarce edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The illustrator : Margaret Winifred Tarrant (1888 – 29 July 1959) was an English illustrator, and children's author, specializing in depictions of fairy-like children and religious subjects. She began her career at the age of 20, and painted and published into the early 1950s. She was known for her children's books, postcards, calendars, and print reproductions.