Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snark - Hardcover

Carroll, Lewis (Author)., Barry Moser (Designer, Illustrator)., James R. Kincaid (Preface, Notes)., Selwyn H. Goodacre (Editor)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0370109279 ISBN 13: 9780370109275

Publisher: University of California Press, 1982

Synopsis

Printed in an edition limited to 350 numbered copies signed by the publisher/ illustrator Dwyer, no.26 . Finely illustrated with seventy-five exceptionally fine wood engravings by Barry Moser. Preface by James Kincaid and edited by Selwyn H. Goodacre. Calligraphy on the title-page is the work of G.G. Laurens, as is the versal A of the first chapter opening, which is engraved and hand-colored by Barry Moser. Printed by Harold P. McGrath in Bembo in five colors on Pulegium, a paper made by Strathmore Mills for Pennyroyal. Bound by Gray Parrot in half-leather accompanied by an additional suite of signed prints laid in a quarter-leather tray case, with a notation by the publisher about "tiny white cracks" in the images resulting from cracks in the wood blocks. "Since there was no definitive text for the Alice books, I sought out a leading authority, Selwyn Goodacre, to put together an experimental text, based on Carroll's corrections to his original text Moser ." iv , 145, 7 pages. purple halfleather with marbled paper-covered boards, quarter leather and cloth clamshell slipcase by Gray Parrot. folio.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0370109279
• ISBN 13: 9780370109275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292