Estimate: | £300 - £500 |
Hammer price: | £320 |
BINDING - "Lewis CARROLL" [i.e. Charles Lutwidge DODGSON (1832-98)]. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ... With a Proem by Austin Dobson. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1974. Small 4to (195 x 145mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece and 12 plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations. FINELY BOUND by Bayntun in full polished burgundy pictorial calf gilt, the upper cover with the White Rabbit consulting his watch stamped in gilt, the spine gilt in compartments with purple and green morocco lettering-pieces and four motifs stamped in the compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (some light scratching to covers). With The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales ... Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (London, 1983, 4to, coloured frontispiece and 29 plates by Edmund Dulac, original "genuine leather" [according to the label] gilt, slipcase, NUMBER 475 OF 500 COPIES). (2)