Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel.

Author: CARROLL, Lewis. (John Tenniel, illustrator). Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., 1883. Seventy-First thousand. Language: Text in English. Size: 7.5 " X 5 ". Pages: 192, [1] pages. Binding: Attractive and very good original decorated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt. Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing - as shown, very nice ex-libris of Isabelle Corwith Cramer on the first endpaper - as shown). WITH laid in original photograph (albumen carte-de-visite) of John Tenniel by John & Charles Watkins and a clipped inscription mounted to a card, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR JOHN TENNIEL: "With kind regards, Your very faithfully, John Tenniel.". Illustrations: Complete with the 42 wonderful illustrations by John Tenniel. **** The book: Attractive early edition of this classic, with the added bonus of Tenniel's rather scarce albumen carte-de-visite and signature! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.