Alice's Adventures in Wonderland With a Proem by Austin Dobson (sic)

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The Deluxe Edition, Limited to 270 numbered copies. In the publishers white buckram, gilt titles & illustration, faint edge fingering. Spine, faded, gilt titles & tooling. Internally, signed illustrated endpapers, half title with limitation to verso, mounted frontispiece, B&W illustrated title, [4], (v-xi, [1], 161 pp, [1], [1], 13 coloured illustrations & 4 full page B&W illustrations by Rackham, mounted on brown paper, each with a captioned tissue guard, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, 20 B&W illustrations within text, including initial letters, some browning from brown paper plate-mounts to facing text leaves, including light browning to title & limitation f., some light foxing, endpapers browned, t.e.g., remainder uncut, ink inscription to fep, covers still bright, (277*230 mm) (Riall p77/8. Latimer/Haskell p28/9). This is the only edition of Alice ever officially signed by Rackham (20 of 270). Rackham's illustrations for this work were highly controversial, as the English public already identified the story with thew drawings of John Tenniel.