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Sir John Tenniel's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking-glass : ninety-one prints from the original wood blocks engraved by the Brothers Dalziel from drawings by Sir John Tenniel & one print from an electrotype.

Title
Sir John Tenniel's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking-glass : ninety-one prints from the original wood blocks engraved by the Brothers Dalziel from drawings by Sir John Tenniel & one print from an electrotype.
Author
Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914.
Publication
London : Macmillan Publishers, 1988.

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Additional Authors
  • De Freitas, Leo John.
  • Dalziel, George, 1815-1902.
  • Dalziel, Edward, 1817-1905.
  • Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
  • Stephenson, Jonathan.
  • Fine Bindery (Firm) bnd
  • Rocket Press. prt
Description
2 cases : all ill.; 27 cm. +
Subjects
Note
  • Text vol. has title: A study of Sir John Tenniel's wood-engraved illustrations to Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking-glass / Leo John De Freitas. One of 250 copies printed; signed by the author on half-title.
  • Portfolio contains folder with "A sequence of proof prints from the original wood engraving" (13 prints lettered in pencil A-M and blind-stamped: The Rocket Press, Blewbury); 2 photographs mounted in folders, courtesy of Granville Davies; 1 print, enclosed in mylar, loose in folder, which is a portion of the manilla tympan sheet used to cover the cylinder of the press while printing one of the engravings; and pamphlet, The printing of the Alice engravings / Jonathan Stephenson. "25 copies printed at The Rocket Press, September 1990"--Colophon of pamphlet; signed by Jonathan Stephenson.
  • The 1st ill. to chapter 5 of Alice's adventures in Wonderland depicts the Caterpiller smoking a hookah.
  • Cases: quarter dark red morocco and light gray cloth; text vol. and portfolio: gray cloth with black leather labels. Issued together in gray cloth slipcase. Binding and boxes by Fine Bindery, Wellingborough.
Bibliography (note)
  • Text vol. includes bibliography (p. 53-59).
Call Number
Arents 99-1
ISBN
0333422074
OCLC
  • 15525112
  • NYPG99-B40
Author
Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914.
Title
Sir John Tenniel's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking-glass : ninety-one prints from the original wood blocks engraved by the Brothers Dalziel from drawings by Sir John Tenniel & one print from an electrotype.
Imprint
London : Macmillan Publishers, 1988.
Bibliography
Text vol. includes bibliography (p. 53-59).
Local Note
No. 23 of an edition printed by Jonathan Stephenson at the Rocket Press, Millcroft Stables, Blewbury, Oxfordshire; "limited to 250 copies of which numbers 1 to 25 are 'special' sets"--Colophon.
Cases contain a bifolium (t.p. and colophon) and the 92 prints (wood engravings) laid loose in folders with printed captions. Each print blind-stamped: Macmillan, London 1988, and numbered 23/250.
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Local Subject
Water-pipes (Smoking paraphernalia) in art.
Added Author
De Freitas, Leo John. Study of Sir John Tenniel's wood-engraved illustrations to Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking-glass. 1988.
Dalziel, George, 1815-1902.
Dalziel, Edward, 1817-1905.
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Alice's adventures in Wonderland.
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Short stories. Selections.
Stephenson, Jonathan.
Fine Bindery (Firm) Binder
Rocket Press. Printer
Research Call Number
Arents 99-1
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