Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]
by Lewis CARROLL - Arthur RACKHAM
$13,534 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1908. Fine. Alice: « and what is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations? » | Librairie Hachette et Cie | Paris 1908 | 23.50 x 28.50 cm | Reliure de l éditeur | Illustrated edition with 13 colour plates on brown paper by Arthur Rackham tipped in with captioned tissue guards, together with 14 black-and-white illustrations in the text by Rackham, including a frontispiece portrait of Alice, one of the very rare 20 copies on japon, signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page, copy from the deluxe issue. A few name copies on the same paper were also issued. Publishers full vellum binding, flat spine lettered in gilt with a gilt illustration of the Cheshire Cat, upper cover stamped in gilt with the title and an illustration of two fantastic creatures, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt. Occasional light foxing. A handsome copy of the most sought-after of Rackhams illustrated works, one of the exceedingly rare copies on japon paper. Provenance: manuscript ex-libris on the half-title of Maurice Feuillet, celebrated press illustrator, notably for major legal trials, as well as art critic and founder of the Figaro artistique . Feuillet remains renowned for his courtroom sketches during the trials of Émile Zola in 1898 and Alfred Dreyfus in 1899. * Such is the fantastic tale which Mr. A. Rackham has turned into a living poem for the delight of the eyes. His art, ingenious in its elegance, his drawing refined and picturesque, the fan
- Publisher: Librairie Hachette et Cie
- Year: 1908
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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