ALICE IN WONDERLAND

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the illustrator. Quarter vellum binding and decorative red paper covered boards with vellum tips. The titles to the spine stamped in 24-carat gold, illustrations on the upper board blocked in four foils. Top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Limitation spread blocked in two colours on two shades of laid paper, inset with an etching hand-printed under the artist's supervision on Somerset Velvet Buff hand-made paper; signed and numbered by the illustrator to the lower edge. Illustrated with 11 plates printed in full colour with gold borders on art paper, tipped into the text within ornamental gold borders; nine "scraps" printed in full colour, individually cut out and tipped in place. Approximately 50 line-drawings throughout the text and hand drawn initials. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, clean and fresh. The contents spotlessly clean throughout. The original plain glassine dustwrapper is retained. Housed in the fine solander case bound in Paradise cloth with spine titling label blocked in two colours on laid paper.

Issued in a limited edition of 1000 copies of which this example in numbered 9 and signed by Charles Van Sandwyk in pencil to the lower edge of the original etching. A beautifully illustrated and presented Alice.