Book Description

LIMITED EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.3 x 6.6 inches). One of 1000 hand-numbered copies, printed in the Riccardi Fount on handmade Riccardi Paper. A fine copy in a fine leather binding of recent full deep red morocco. Spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt. Compartments ruled, lettered and decorated with March Hare and Playing cards motifs in gilt, with floral gilt surrounds. Ruled gilt border on boards. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. A bright and clean copy of this lovely edition, beautifully printed on fine quality hand made paper and in a decorative leather binding. This edition was published by arrangement with Macmillan and Company using Carroll's revised text of 1896. The wonderful Tenniel illustrations are printed from fresh electros taken from the original wood-blocks, with four being slightly enlarged from the original block designs.
Author CARROLL. LEWIS. ; TENNIEL. JOHN. Illustrates.
Date 1914
Publisher Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, for the Riccardi Press, London.

Price: £975.00

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