Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snark

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snark image
ISBN-10:

0370109279

ISBN-13:

9780370109275

Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 01, 1982
Format: Hardcover, 292 pages
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Description:

Printed in an edition limited to 350 numbered copies signed by the publisher/ illustrator Dwyer, no.26 . Finely illustrated with seventy-five exceptionally fine wood engravings by Barry Moser. Preface by James Kincaid and edited by Selwyn H. Goodacre. Calligraphy on the title-page is the work of G.G. Laurens, as is the versal A of the first chapter opening, which is engraved and hand-colored by Barry Moser. Printed by Harold P. McGrath in Bembo in five colors on Pulegium, a paper made by Strathmore Mills for Pennyroyal. Bound by Gray Parrot in half-leather accompanied by an additional suite of signed prints laid in a quarter-leather tray case, with a notation by the publisher about "tiny white cracks" in the images resulting from cracks in the wood blocks. "Since there was no definitive text for the Alice books, I sought out a leading authority, Selwyn Goodacre, to put together an experimental text, based on Carroll's corrections to his original text Moser ." iv , 145, 7 pages. purple halfleather with marbled paper-covered boards, quarter leather and cloth clamshell slipcase by Gray Parrot. folio.











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