1911 Rare First color illustrated Edition - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass.
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Author : CARROLL, Lewis (John Tenniel, illustrator).
Title : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll with ninety-two illustrations by John Tenniel Including sixteen in Colour.
Publisher : London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1911. First colour edition of Tenniel illustrations
Language : Text in English.
Size : 8.5 " X 6 ".
Pages : x-291 pages.
Binding : Attractive and very good original decorated cloth binding (overall slightly worn and scuffed, spine slightly faded and sunned - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing and staining - as shown, offsetting /staining on last illustrations margin - as shown).
Illustrations : Complete with all the 16 beautiful full page color illustrations by Tenniel.
Estimate : (USD 400- USD 650)
The book : Rare and attractive first colour edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass illustrated with the illustrations by John Tenniel.
The illustrator : Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914) was an English illustrator, graphic humorist, and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. He was knighted for his artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is remembered especially 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).
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.