{"product_id":"1920-rare-book-alice-in-wonderland-illustrated-by-margaret-w-tarrant-2","title":"1920 Rare Book - Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Margaret W. Tarrant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn attractive and complete 1920s edition of Lewis Carroll’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, richly illustrated with Margaret W. Tarrant’s celebrated suite of 48 colour illustrations and retaining its charming original pictorial cloth binding.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Lewis Carroll.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTitle:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock \u0026amp; Co., Limited, no date [circa 1928].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Early edition illustrated by Margaret W. Tarrant, from Ward, Lock’s “Prince Charming Colour Books for Children” series. This pictorial cloth issue is bibliographically associated with the late 1920s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e xvi, 332 pages, plus publisher’s catalogue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 8 x 6.5 inches.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBinding:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Very good original publisher’s grey-green cloth binding, with black-stamped titles and decorative framing to the front board, centred with an oval colour pictorial onlay of Alice and the White Rabbit. Black-stamped titles and decorative design to the spine. Light general wear, rubbing and age toning, particularly to the spine and extremities, as shown. Binding sound and attractive. Protected in a removable mylar cover. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eContent:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Good to very good content, complete and generally well preserved. A small chip and one tear to the upper margins of the first two leaves, including the title page, have been neatly repaired by a previous owner, as shown. Scattered foxing and age toning, predominantly to the outer margins and page edges, with the illustrated plates generally remaining bright and attractive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Complete with the full suite of 48 colour illustrations by Margaret W. Tarrant, including the striking pictorial endpapers. Tarrant’s delicate watercolours depict Alice, the White Rabbit, the Dodo, the Queen of Hearts and the other inhabitants of Wonderland in her distinctive early twentieth-century style.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEstimate:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e$300–400 USD.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLewis Carroll’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e first appeared in 1865 and rapidly became one of the defining works of English children’s literature. Its extraordinary combination of fantasy, verbal play, absurdity and dream logic has inspired generations of artists, and illustrated editions have become an important collecting field in their own right.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMargaret Tarrant’s interpretation first appeared with Ward, Lock in 1916 and became one of the enduring visual treatments of Carroll’s story. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis later Prince Charming issue is particularly appealing for retaining the extensive suite of colour artwork, including the wonderful double-page pictorial endpapers, together with the publisher’s distinctive pictorial cloth binding.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLewis Carroll (1832–1898), the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was an English mathematician, logician, photographer and writer. Best remembered for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and its sequel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough the Looking-Glass\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Carroll created a literary world in which logic and language are continually overturned, producing stories whose humour and imaginative strangeness continue to appeal to both children and adults.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe illustrator:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMargaret Winifred Tarrant (1888–1959) was a British artist and book illustrator especially admired for her delicate watercolours of children, fairies and literary subjects. 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