Original wood engraving from "Through The Looking-Glass" Chapter III [.half way up the bush, you'll see a Rocking-horse-fly, if you look.]

DODGSON, Charles L. (Lewis Carroll)

Published by London: Macmillan, The Rocket Press, 1988., 1988

About this Item

1 leaf, 9-1/2" x 7", limited to 250 copies, with the original printed card folder, numbered 222/250 and blind stamped by the Rocket Press along the lower edge. In FINE condition. Printed from the original boxwood blocks that were used to create the electrotype plates for the first edition. These were discovered in 1985 in two deed boxes belonging to Macmillan, in the vaults of the National Westminster Bank in London's Covent Garden where they had lain undisturbed since World War Two. Macmillan then commissioned The Rocket Press to produce a limited edition of 250 prints taken directly from the blocks, the first time they had been used to create an entire edition. Previously Macmillan had treated them as masters, only taking them out of storage to cut electrotype copies for each fresh printing or occasionally to take pulls for particular individuals. Only the block for 'Alice & the Dodo' was missing and, for completeness, Jonathan Stephenson used an electrotype in its place. The Rocket Press edition was distributed worldwide and no further sets commissioned, the woodblocks were eventually deposited in the British Library for safekeeping. Seller Inventory # 001546

Bibliographic Details

Title: Original wood engraving from "Through The ...

Publisher: London: Macmillan, The Rocket Press, 1988.

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine