Author: Lewis Carroll
Title: Alice&Apos;S Adventures in Wonderland
Description: London, Macmillan and Co, 1905 . Paperback. The 1905 impression of Macmillan's sixpenny edition of Lewis Carroll's highly influential work of Victorian children's literature, illustrated by John Tenniel. With a frontispiece and forty-two illustrations from John Tenniel, the majority of which have been neatly hand-coloured by a prior owner.Upon the original publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, Tenniel was far more well-known than Carroll, owing to his successful career as an illustrator and cartoonist, including many pieces for the satirical periodical 'Punch&apos.Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) was a mathematician and author credited in this work with creating perhaps the greatest example of literary nonsense. Whilst the work was meant for children - indeed the tale was originally told to a friend's daughter, Alice Liddell - the word play, logic and fantastical have interested and delighted scholars since its publication.With contemporay advertisements - including for Great Ormond St. Hospital - to verso of front wrap, and to front and rear endpapers.The seventh printing of Macmillan's sixpenny series, which was first published in 1898. In the publisher's original cloth backed paper wraps. Lacking rear wrap. Front wrap and front free endpaper, and rear free endpaper, detached. Marks to front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned due to paper type, but clean. Majority of illustrations hand coloured by a prior owner. Fair . Ill.: John Tenniel. Fair .

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