Item #33664 Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrations by Harry Furniss. Cheshire Cat Press, Lewis Carroll, Edward Wakeling Harry Furniss, introduction, book artist George Walker.
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrations by Harry Furniss
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrations by Harry Furniss
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrations by Harry Furniss
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrations by Harry Furniss
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrations by Harry Furniss
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrations by Harry Furniss
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrations by Harry Furniss
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrations by Harry Furniss

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrations by Harry Furniss

Toronto: Cheshire Cat Press, 2015. Number 16 of 66 copies signed and numbered by the publisher, Andy Malcolm, the writer of the introduction, Edward Wakeling, and the printer, George A. Walker. The press calls this fine production their Sesquicentennial Edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Edward Wakeling, who wrote the introduction, is an internationally known authority on Carroll. Wakeling writes in his introduction: Harry Furniss was born in Wexford, Ireland on March 26, 1854. He was a prolific artist and illustrator, best remembered for his humorous illustrations published in Punch, to which he contributed over 2,600 drawings from 1880 to 1894. Furniss was eleven years old when Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published. He regretted not being old enough to illustrate the Alice book for himself. He was delighted when Carroll singled him out to illustrate the Sylvie and Bruno books. Carroll recognized Furniss’s ability to draw both character likenesses and grotesques; an essential ingredient for his new book. Sylvie and Bruno was nothing like Alice’s Adventures. Furniss said that this was a bitter disappointment to him. Inwardly, he nursed the ambition to do his own illustrated version of Alice. When the copyright ran out in 1907, he drew twenty illustrations for the book. But few people have seen Alice as illustrated by Harry Furniss. The illustrations first appeared in three installments of The Children’s Encyclopaedia edited by Arthur Mee in 1908. This edition offers for the first time enlarged, high resolution copies of the original Furniss art. The portfolio of loose illustration leaves is made available for sale as a hand printed folio. The polymer plates of the illustrations were made from high resolution scans; sixteen of these images are from the original drawings from the archives of the Fales Library in New York City. Printed on Arches Velin Cream French 100% rag archival paper with Janson type. The portfolio is housed in a clam shell box made from the finest quality materials, with red cloth covers and a gilt illustration of the white rabbit on the top cover and gilt title on spine. In fine condition. Paper sheets measure 11 x 15 inches. PRI/111519. Fine.

Item #33664

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