The New and Diverting Game of «Alice in Wonderland»

by [Lewis Carroll]

$1,044 · Offered by Biblio

48 color lithograph playing cards (mm 90x60) in their original double slipcase (mm 10x60x20). Front cover: By special arrangement with Messrs. Macmillan & Co., the publishers of Lewis Carroll's celebrated work. The New and Diverting Game of "Alice in Wonderland" consisting of forty-eight pictorial cards, adapted, drawn in fac-simile, and elaborately rendered in colours from Sir John Tennel's original designs, by Miss E. Gertrude Thomson. Thomas de la Rue & Co., Ltd., 110 Bunhill Row, London, E.C.1. Back cover illustration : [Card no.] 14, The dormouse in the teapot. Left side panel: The pictorial game of Alice in Wonderland, from the original designs. Right side panel: Manufactured to His Majesty, Thomas de la Rue …

• Publisher: Thomas de La Rue & Co. Ltd.
• Year: 1905

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