1920 Scarce Book - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with frontispiece by Margaret Tarrant.

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(Description)

Author: Lewis Carroll.
Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Publisher: London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, no date (circa 1920).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7 " X 5 ".
Pages: 212 pages + catalogue.
Binding: Attractive, scarce and very good decorated full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. A rare find in any condition!
Content: Good content (bright and tight, foxing and staining throughout - as shown, school prize label on front endpaper dated 1922 - as shown). 
Illustrations: Illustrated with a nice frontispiece by Margaret W. Tarrant.
 

The book: Attractive and scarce binding variant for this 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.