Classic English Literature · John Tenniel · Illustrated Books
A Wonderland in Red and Gold — Lewis Carroll’s Alice, Macmillan, 1928
Lewis Carroll · Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland · Macmillan, London, 1928
Catalogue details
Description
Published in London in 1928, this Macmillan edition preserves the pairing that made Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland one of the most recognizable illustrated books in English literature: Lewis Carroll’s imaginative narrative and John Tenniel’s extraordinary visual world. The familiar court scene facing the title page, with the King and Queen of Hearts and their attendants, conveys the eccentric theatricality of the story.
- Dimensions
- Measurements gladly provided on request
- Author
- Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
- Title
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited, St Martin’s Street, London
- Date
- 1928
- Illustrations
- Forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel (as stated on title page)
- Binding
- Original publisher’s red cloth, gilt-stamped upper board
- Edition
- Later Macmillan printing; not the first edition of 1865
- Condition
- Please consult the photographs for condition. Additional photographs are available on request.
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Historical context & sources
The Red Cloth Edition
The publisher’s red cloth, enriched with a gilt title panel and ornament, belongs to the continuing Macmillan tradition of issuing Carroll’s classic for successive generations of readers. This is a twentieth-century edition, not a first printing or an antiquarian association copy; its attraction is as an original period volume with the celebrated Tenniel illustrations and an attractive surviving binding.
Collectors & Research
A useful and visually appealing period copy for readers and collectors of Carroll, Tenniel, classic children’s literature, Edwardian and interwar publishing traditions, and illustrated fiction.
