Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - First Edition charbonnel

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - First Edition charbonnelAlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Published by Macmillan and Co. London 1866. First edition. Rebound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full crimson morocco. Titles and decorated motifs blocked in gilt to spine. Alice holding pig and Cheshire Cat illustrations blocked to front and rear boards. Binding retains one of its original endpapers (the preferred colour pale blue) tipped in at rear. This (the first non supressed edition) was

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Alice Through The Looking Glass midnight blue grosgrain ribbons

Rackham was the first major illustrator to be tasked with creating new illustrations for Carroll's classic text when copyright ran out in 1907

Bound in a fine woven midnight blue silk cloth with top edge hand decorated in silver by  top English book bindery Shepherd’s of London

A unique collaboration with Cecilia Lundqvist

Walker front cover depicts the famous court scene

Dustwrapper has some wear and browning to spine but it is rare to encounter an early twentieth century copy in a dustwrapper

Beautifully bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full red morocco

Main Edition

'Queen Alice' is depicted on the front of this gift box with Humpty Dumpty and Alice and their conversation about an 'Un-Birthday' on the inside

In response to countless such requests

Binding retains one of its original endpapers (the preferred colour pale blue)  tipped in at rear