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Lot 147
[Dodgson (C. L.)], "Lewis Carroll".- De Freitas (Leo John) Sir John Tenniel's Wood-Engraved Illustrations to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' & 'Through the Looking Glass', 3 vol. including 2 boxes of plates, 1988
Hammer Price: £2,200
Description
[Dodgson (C. L.)], "Lewis Carroll".- De Freitas (Leo John, editor) Sir John Tenniel's Wood-Engraved Illustrations to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' & 'Through the Looking Glass', 3 vol. comprising text and 2 boxes of plates, number 181 of 250 sets, text with tipped-in illustrations, original cloth with gilt-stamped calf label to upper cover, 91 wood-engraved plates and 1 electrotype plate after Tenniel, each loose in folder as issued, housed in two original morocco-backed cloth drop-back boxes, gilt calf labels to spines, spines a little faded, together in cloth slip-case, small 4to, printed at the Rocket Press of Blewbury, 1988.
⁂ The wood-engraved plates are printed from the original wood-blocks engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. These were assumed lost, until they were found in a bank vault in the 1980s.
Description
[Dodgson (C. L.)], "Lewis Carroll".- De Freitas (Leo John, editor) Sir John Tenniel's Wood-Engraved Illustrations to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' & 'Through the Looking Glass', 3 vol. comprising text and 2 boxes of plates, number 181 of 250 sets, text with tipped-in illustrations, original cloth with gilt-stamped calf label to upper cover, 91 wood-engraved plates and 1 electrotype plate after Tenniel, each loose in folder as issued, housed in two original morocco-backed cloth drop-back boxes, gilt calf labels to spines, spines a little faded, together in cloth slip-case, small 4to, printed at the Rocket Press of Blewbury, 1988.
⁂ The wood-engraved plates are printed from the original wood-blocks engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. These were assumed lost, until they were found in a bank vault in the 1980s.
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