ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

First edition with these illustrations. Deluxe limited edition, large paper issue. Publisher's original white cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers, 13 tipped-in colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard and 15 black-and-white line drawings by Arthur Rackham. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt fresh with just a few small marks and mild darkening to the spine. The contents, with a little toning to the enpapers and only the occasional finger mark to the margins of a couple of pages are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. All illustrations are present ('The Mad Tea Party' whilst called for opposite page 84 in the illustration list is bound, as issued, opposite page 79) and in fine condition. An attractive example of this finely illustrated Alice.

This large paper issue of the first Arthur Rackham illustrated edition was issued in an edition of 1100 copies, the present example is hand-numbered 778 (there were also an additional 30 copies for presentation numbered 1101 - 1130). One of the most beautiful and collectable illustrated editions of Lewis Carroll's classic of children's literature. A very attractive example, in original condition, offered in its most desirable format.