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The first people's edition of this much loved children's work, complete with many charming illustrations by John Tenniel. In a red cloth binding with pictorial detail of the white rabbit checking his pocket watch. Of course, when an originally successful piece of art is followed by another imitation, conflicts will arise. It is a parody of stories from Alice in Wonderland with Guinness facts thrown in. Full of delightful colour illustrations throughout.
You can find my contact info here: Would you have a value on this book? Superb Tenniel colour illustrations. This copy is or seems to be particularly old. Signature in book of George C.
The Wonderland described in the tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. She finds interest in a passing white rabbit, dressed in a waistcoat and muttering "Oh dear! It provided temporary escape and relief from the ravages of the War. He was also an accomplished photographer and a Church Deacon. The Folio Society, London, Limited to 1, copies, this is no.
Illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk, numbered and signed by him. Lots of line-drawings throughout. This was published as part of their Sunshine Series. The illustrated boards are in very good conditionm with slight wear to the edges and corners. The spine is firm but bumped at the top and bottom. Good pp catalogue, Large format paperback with stunning illustrated pastedown by Arthur Rackham. General soiling and marks to covers. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. Profusely illustrated by John Tenniel. Internals are very clean and bright.
Textblock is solid and square. No other writing or marking. Great reference book for all 'Alice in Wonderland' admirers and collectors. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. Two or three marks, bumps and scores on boards. Hardcover spine ends are a little bumped. Pages are clean, and the contents are clear. Russell Books Ltd Condition: Shelfwear with small tears. Looks nice in new mylar.. From the Facsimile Classics Series. Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland must surely be one of the most famous children's books ever written, but comparatively few people know of the existence of The Nursery 'Alice: Containing twenty enlarged and coloured versions of Tenniel illustrations, with a cover painted by E.
Gertrude Thompson, the book was first published in and produced by Edmund Evans, the leading Victorian colour printer. Here is a delightful introduction for the very young to one of the most celebrated characters in children's literature, complete with Sir John Tenniel's illustrations which have become as much a part of Alice as Lewis Carroll's own text.
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Minimal rubbing to spine and corners. Dustwrapper spine is just a little faded. Twenty colored enlargements of Tenniel's illustrations. Chapter Five — Advice from a Caterpillar: Alice comes upon a mushroom and sitting on it is a blue Caterpillar smoking a hookah.
The Caterpillar questions Alice and she admits to her current identity crisis, compounded by her inability to remember a poem. Before crawling away, the caterpillar tells Alice that one side of the mushroom will make her taller and the other side will make her shorter. She breaks off two pieces from the mushroom. One side makes her shrink smaller than ever, while another causes her neck to grow high into the trees, where a pigeon mistakes her for a serpent.
With some effort, Alice brings herself back to her normal height. She stumbles upon a small estate and uses the mushroom to reach a more appropriate height. Chapter Six — Pig and Pepper: Alice observes this transaction and, after a perplexing conversation with the frog, lets herself into the house. The Duchess's Cook is throwing dishes and making a soup that has too much pepper, which causes Alice, the Duchess, and her baby but not the cook or grinning Cheshire Cat to sneeze violently. Alice is given the baby by the Duchess and to her surprise, the baby turns into a pig.
The Cheshire Cat appears in a tree, directing her to the March Hare 's house. He disappears but his grin remains behind to float on its own in the air prompting Alice to remark that she has often seen a cat without a grin but never a grin without a cat. Alice becomes a guest at a "mad" tea party along with the March Hare , the Hatter , and a very tired Dormouse who falls asleep frequently, only to be violently awakened moments later by the March Hare and the Hatter. The characters give Alice many riddles and stories, including the famous ' Why is a raven like a writing desk? Alice becomes insulted and tired of being bombarded with riddles and she leaves claiming that it was the stupidest tea party that she had ever been to.
Alice leaves the tea party and enters the garden where she comes upon three living playing cards painting the white roses on a rose tree red because The Queen of Hearts hates white roses. A procession of more cards, kings and queens and even the White Rabbit enters the garden.
Alice then meets the King and Queen. The Queen, a figure difficult to please, introduces her trademark phrase "Off with his head! Alice is invited or some might say ordered to play a game of croquet with the Queen and the rest of her subjects but the game quickly descends into chaos. Live flamingos are used as mallets and hedgehogs as balls and Alice once again meets the Cheshire Cat. The Queen of Hearts then orders the Cat to be beheaded, only to have her executioner complain that this is impossible since the head is all that can be seen of him.
Because the cat belongs to the Duchess, the Queen is prompted to release the Duchess from prison to resolve the matter. The Duchess is brought to the croquet ground at Alice's request. She ruminates on finding morals in everything around her. The Queen of Hearts dismisses her on the threat of execution and she introduces Alice to the Gryphon , who takes her to the Mock Turtle. The Mock Turtle is very sad, even though he has no sorrow.
He tries to tell his story about how he used to be a real turtle in school, which the Gryphon interrupts so they can play a game. Chapter Ten — Lobster Quadrille: Chapter Eleven — Who Stole the Tarts? Alice attends a trial whereby the Knave of Hearts is accused of stealing the Queen's tarts. The jury is composed of various animals, including Bill the Lizard , the White Rabbit is the court's trumpeter, and the judge is the King of Hearts. During the proceedings, Alice finds that she is steadily growing larger.
The dormouse scolds Alice and tells her she has no right to grow at such a rapid pace and take up all the air.
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Alice scoffs and calls the dormouse's accusation ridiculous because everyone grows and she cannot help it. Meanwhile, witnesses at the trial include the Hatter, who displeases and frustrates the King through his indirect answers to the questioning, and the Duchess's cook. Chapter Twelve — Alice's Evidence: Alice is then called up as a witness.
She accidentally knocks over the jury box with the animals inside them and the King orders the animals be placed back into their seats before the trial continues. The King and Queen order Alice to be gone, citing Rule 42 "All persons more than a mile high to leave the court" , but Alice disputes their judgement and refuses to leave.
She argues with the King and Queen of Hearts over the ridiculous proceedings, eventually refusing to hold her tongue. The Queen shouts her familiar "Off with her head! Alice's sister wakes her up from a dream, brushing what turns out to be some leaves and not a shower of playing cards from Alice's face. Alice leaves her sister on the bank to imagine all the curious happenings for herself.
Alice Liddell herself is there, while Carroll is caricatured as the Dodo because Dodgson stuttered when he spoke, he sometimes pronounced his last name as Dodo-Dodgson. It has been suggested by some writers that The Hatter is a reference to Theophilus Carter , a furniture dealer known in Oxford. Tenniel apparently drew the Hatter to resemble Carter, on a suggestion of Carroll's. These are the Liddell sisters: The Mock Turtle speaks of a Drawling-master, "an old conger eel", who came once a week to teach "Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils".
This is a reference to the art critic John Ruskin , who came once a week to the Liddell house to teach the children drawing , sketching , and painting in oils. The children did, in fact, learn well; Alice Liddell, for one, produced a number of skilful watercolours. The Mock Turtle also sings "Turtle Soup".
Most of the book's adventures may have been based on and influenced by people, situations and buildings in Oxford and at Christ Church, e. A carving of a griffon and rabbit, as seen in Ripon Cathedral , where Carroll's father was a canon, may have provided inspiration for the tale. Since Carroll was a mathematician at Christ Church , it has been suggested [23] [24] that there are many references and mathematical concepts in both this story and Through the Looking-Glass ; examples include:.
Literary scholar Melanie Bayley asserted in the magazine New Scientist that Dodgson wrote Alice in Wonderland in its final form as a scathing satire on new modern mathematics that were emerging in the midth century. It has been suggested by several people, including Martin Gardner and Selwyn Goodacre, [23] that Dodgson had an interest in the French language, choosing to make references and puns about it in the story.
It is most likely that these are references to French lessons—a common feature of a Victorian middle-class girl's upbringing. For example, in the second chapter Alice posits that the mouse may be French. She therefore chooses to speak the first sentence of her French lesson-book to it: Pat's "Digging for apples" could be a cross-language pun , as pomme de terre literally; "apple of the earth" means potato and pomme means apple.
In the second chapter, Alice initially addresses the mouse as "O Mouse", based on her memory of the noun declensions "in her brother's Latin Grammar , 'A mouse — of a mouse — to a mouse — a mouse — O mouse! The sixth case, mure ablative is absent from Alice's recitation. In the eighth chapter, three cards are painting the roses on a rose tree red, because they had accidentally planted a white-rose tree that The Queen of Hearts hates.
Red roses symbolised the English House of Lancaster , while white roses were the symbol for their rival House of York. This scene is an allusion to the Wars of the Roses. While the book has remained in print and continually inspires new adaptations, the cultural material that it references has become largely specialized knowledge.
Dr Leon Coward asserts the book 'suffers' from "readings which reflect today's fascination with postmodernism and psychology, rather than delving into an historically informed interpretation," and speculates that this has been partly driven by audiences encountering the narrative through a 'second-hand' source, explaining "our impressions of the original text are based on a multiplicity of reinterpretations.
We don't necessarily realise we're missing anything in understanding the original product, because we're usually never dealing with the original product. Carina Garland notes how the world is "expressed via representations of food and appetite", naming Alice's frequent desire for consumption of both food and words , her 'Curious Appetites'.
After the riddle "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?