Alice's adventures in Wonderland, an 1865 printing re-described and newly identified as the Publisher's "File Copy", with a census of the suppressed 1865 "Alice" compiled by Selwyn H. Goodacre, to which is added, a short-title index identifying and locating the original preliminary drawings by John Tenniel for Alice and Looking-Glass
Kingston NY: Battledore Ltd., [1990]. Inscribed at the colophon "For Bill Matheson - / With best of Carrollean greetings / and thanks for your help during the period / of early research on Tenniel's drawings. / Justin G. Schiller / a.k.a. / 'The Jabberwock'" In this fascinating book Justin Schiller describes his research over more than a decade in an effort to provide a detailed study of John Tenniel's preliminary drawings for both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Cooking-Glass. Bound in brown and gold decorated laminated paper boards that simulate the original gilt leather binding that Riviere & Son designed and used in 1899 for L.W. Montagu when they integrated ten original Tenniel drawings with the 1865 "file" copy of Alice. Corners bumped, some bubbling to covers otherwise very good. Interior pages near fine. Extensively illustrated. Errata slip laid in. 109 pages. More
