Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £500 |
RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939, illustrator) - Lewis CARROLL [i.e. Charles Lutwidge DODGSON (1832-980)]. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ... With a Proem by Austin Dobson. London: William Heinemann, [1907]. Square 8vo (203 x 155mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece and 12 plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations, some full-page (some very light mainly marginal spotting and browning). Original green pictorial cloth gilt, pictorial endpapers. Provenance: "B. H. Waite, Xmas 1907, L. J. W." (inscription on recto of frontispiece). First Trade Edition. Latimore and Haskell pp. 28-29; Riall p.77. With 6 other illustrated books including Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book. Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations (London, [1914], coloured plates by Edmund Dulac, original cloth, first trade edition) and J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (London, 1951, coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, modern morocco-backed cloth, reprint). (7)