Alice Wonderland by Carroll Lewis Pseudonym Dodgson Charles (7 results)

[Children's illustrated] VINTAGE COPY, the 88th thousand. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 195 [5]. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel. Two leaves of advertisements at rear. Publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and gilt devices to boards. All edges gilt, and dark navy endpapers. Black ink gift inscription to half-title. A portion missing from the tissue-guard for the frontispiece. Repairs to split hinges, with some weakness to central guttering, and light spotting throughout. Spine sunned, otherwise light wear only to cloth. Very good. A copy of the 1865/66 children's classic, featuring Tenniel's original illustrations, in the original format.

[Children's Literature] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.162; [2]. With 13 full colour plates including a frontispiece, and many line drawings within the text, all by Rackham. Publisher's light green cloth with dark green titles and gilt illustration to upper, titled in green to spine, with monogrammed imprint blocked to rear. Light spotting throughout, otherwise internally clean. Toned and lightly rubbed to cloth, with heavier browning to spine. Very good. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Williams & Madan p. 236. Richard Riall p.77-8. Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.

Early edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original blue cloth boards with titles in gilt to the upper board, illustration and titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 12 full page colour plates and line drawings throughout the text by Mabel Lucie Attwell. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with a little wear to the spine tips and corners. The cloth with just a few light marks is otherwise bright and fresh. The contents, with an ink inscription to the blank front endpaper and mild foxing to the prelims and text block edge, are otherwise clean and bright. All of the colour plates are present as called for and in fine condition. Publisher's catalogue to the rear. An attractive example of this beautifully illustrated Alice in an uncommon cloth binding. Commonly seen in paper covered pictorial boards and cloth spine, there was also a deluxe issue in dark blue heavy beveled cloth boards illustrated and with titles in gilt to the upper board. This example appears to be an in-between state, the boards not beveled and without the illustration to the upper board, but here present on the spine. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

[Children's illustrated] VINTAGE COPY, 'Seventy Fourth thousand' stated. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 192; [4]. With in-text illustrations and a frontispiece by Tenniel. One leaf of advertisements at rear. Publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and gilt devices to boards, all edges gilt, dark navy endpapers. Contents clean with some gentle reading marks, covers show some soiling, large cup/saucer ring to rear, joints and spine ends expertly repaired. A very good, presentable copy. Vintage Victorian printing (first published 1865/66), featuring Tenniel's original illustrations.

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. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First editions. Two volumes. Finely bound by Charles Elsden Gladstone in elaborately decorated full brown morocco, the spines with 5 raised bands and titles in gilt. Gilt decorated inner boards, marbled endpapers. Binder's initials stamped in gilt to the lower inner front board. All edges gilt. The publisher's cloth bound in as the front and rear pastedown of Through the Looking Glass. Illustrated with frontispieces and 90 illustrations across the two volumes by John Tenniel. The four page leaflet 'To All Child Readers of Alice In Wonderland', originally issued loosely laid in to first editions of Through the Looking Glass, has been retained and bound in. Some spotting and a couple of tiny closed tears to the margins of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, otherwise a fine set. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the first published edition, the second overall: the book was originally printed in Oxford at the Clarendon Press in June 1865, but was suppressed when Carroll heard that the book's illustrator was dissatisfied with the quality of the printing. He recalled the few pre-publication copies he had sent out to his friends and donated them to hospitals, where most perished. Only 23 of those original "1865 Alices" are now extant, mostly in institutional holdings, thus creating one of the most famous black tulips of book collecting. The book was entirely reset by Richard Clay for the present authorized Macmillan edition, the earliest edition that can be realistically obtained. Although dated 1866, the edition was in fact ready by November 1865, in time for the Christmas market, and was published in a print run of 4,000 copies. The copy of Through the Looking-Glass is the first edition; like its predecessor, it was published for the Christmas market and bears the following year's date in its imprint. It was actually published in December 1871, in an edition of 9,000 copies. Charles Elsden Gladstone (1855-1919), the creator of these exquisite bindings, had a long and distinguished naval career, during which he rose through the ranks from Midshipman to Commander. Service papers record his expertise in advanced submarine weaponry and photography. That he was reportedly engaged in covert intelligence gathering recently prompted P. J. M. Marks, the British Library's Curator of Western Bookbindings, to refer to Gladstone as "a bookbinding James Bond", 007 another ex-Navy Commander with access to cutting edge technology and working undercover. Gladstone's bookbinding activities his overcover work, if you will appear to have been a labour of love, there being no evidence that he profited, or sought to, from such work (his navy salary and pension were both generous). While researching Gladstone, Marks was unable to uncover the origins or development of his impeccable craftsmanship, skills ordinarily requiring years of apprenticeship under an established binder. Marks did, however, find Gladstone's name "included in the annals of specialist societies relating to microscopy and optical magic lanterns, interests which suggest he had a keen eye and feeling for accuracy." And an eye for accuracy was clearly imperative for the intricacy and precision of Gladstone's elaborately tooled book designs, each stamped discreetly with the initials C. E. G. in gilt to the verso (undercover) of their upper boards. (P. J. M. Marks, 'The mysterious Captain Gladstone, RN a bookbinding James Bond?' The British Library 'Untold Lives' blog, 28 May 2020) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited edition. frontis and 12 other tipped in color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, ix, [3], 161, [1]p. Original white cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. 29 cm. Gilt lettering on backstrip mostly gone. Center portion darker than rest of front cover. Uneven browning on free endpapers. Contents sound and clean -- modest offsetting or browning on the pages facing back side of the brown mounting sheets for the illustrations. This copy has been neatly resewn and recased in the original binding with the hinge portions of the endpapers neatly reinforced with narrow strips of brown cloth. Copy No. 225 of an edition of 1130 copies for sale in Great Britain, Ireland and Colonies. A separate edition of 550 numbered copies was published for the United States in a green cloth-backed binding. Rackham was away from London when this limited edition was being produced for sale by Heinemann so most copies, including this one, were not signed by Rackham.