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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND: An 1865 Printing Re-Described & newly identified as the Publisher's "file copy"; with a revised & expanded CENSUS of the suppressed 1865 "Alice" compiled by Selwyn H. Goodacre; to which is added, a short-title index identifying & locating the original preliminary drawings by John Tenniel for ALICE & LOOKING-GLASS catalogued by Justin G. Schiller. A majority of the 98 illustrations from some of the finest rare book libraries & private collections of "Lewis Carroll" are here reproduced for the very first time... with an actual-size fold-out insert from the Dalziel Bros. album of woodblock proofs now preserved in the British Museum. Tall 8vo, 112pp printed on Mohawk soft-white Superfine 100 lb. acid-free archival paper, specially bound in full-colour boards simulating the original gilt leather binding on the publisher's file copy. An appropriate tribute commemorating the 125th anniversary of the first printing of ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.Goodacre, Selwyn H. is the author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland An 1865 Printing Re-Described' with ISBN 9780962711008 and ISBN 0962711004.
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