1907 Scarce First Edition - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Alice Ross.
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(Description)
Author: CARROLL, Lewis. (Alice Ross, illustrator).
Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With illustration in colour by Alice Ross.
Publisher: Edinburgh, W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, no date (1907). First Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 6.5 " X 5 ".
Pages: 159 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original illustrated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed, soiled and worn - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. A rare find in any condition!
Content: Good content (tight, endpaper toning and some light foxing or staining - as shown, school prize inscription dated 1910 on the first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the five wonderful full-page illustrations by Alice Ross.
Estimate: (Scarce with no or few other copies available for sale worldwide).
The book: Scarce and attractive first edition of Alice Ross illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A rare find in any condition!
The illustrator: Alice E Ross (fl.1886 - 1937), illustrator and painter, was active/lived in the United Kingdom.
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.