Description
Fine dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added, price-clipped, a Rackham color illustration, black lettering, black lettering on the spine, a Rackham illustration on the rear panel. The Fine binding is Illustrated paper over boards with a Rackham color illustration, black lettering, black lettering on the spine, “About the book” on the rear cover, illustrated endpapers. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Thirteen color plates by Arthur Rackham and black-and-white illustrations throughout the book.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
This beautifully illustrated edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1907 and quickly became one of the best-loved of all stories for children.
This facsimile edition contains 15 black and white line drawings and 13 exquisite colour plates all illustrated by Arthur Rackham. (Commonwealth Country conventions of spelling and punctuation.)
About the illustrator: (from the dust jacket)
Arthur Rackham was born in London in 1867, one of twelve children. As a child Arthur showed a precocious talent for drawing and when, at the age of seventeen, he became a clerk in the Westminster Fire Office he also worked at the Lambeth School of Art as a part-time student. Rackham’s first published drawing appeared in 1884. In 1892 he gave up his clerkship to try to make a living by working as an illustrator. By the end of the 19th century he was devoting most of his time to book illustration, though he also drew for magazines. With his many successes he achieved prominence and was able to make a lifetime career in illustration that few English artists have matched.
