Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Arthur Rackham top hat

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Arthur Rackham top hatAlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Published by William Heinemann, London,1907. Publisher's original green cloth lettered in black, blocked in gilt with Gryphon and Mock Turtle design. Thirteen full colour plates printed on coated paper stock, tissue guards with printed titles . In the publisher's original dustwrapper, priced 8 net to spine. 2x2cm chip to top of spine of wrapper slight differential fading

published by Macmillan & Co

made with premium Italian paper and de-bossed with gold foiled logo

Based on Sir John Tenniel’s original monochrome design

This size has sold out

Shapeable ears are lined with pink silk

the combined People's Edition

Playing Card men stand guard in the foreground with plumed hats

Titles and decorated motifs blocked in gilt to spine

First edition of Wilde's second book of children's stories printed in an edition of 1000 unnumbered copies

lettered and decorated in gilt

Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

that it was abandoned half way through its print run and replaced with a simpler design