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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass & The Hunting of the Snark - Lewis . Gwynedd M. Hudson, Illustrator Carroll, Illustrated, Hardcover
Hodder and Stoughton
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Release Date
1/1/1982
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ISBN-13
9780370109275 | 978-0-370-10927-5
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ISBN
0370109279 | 0-370-10927-9
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Format
Hardcover
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Author(s)
Lewis . Gwynedd M. Hudson, Illustrator Carroll
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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.
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