Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. With a Poem by Austin Dobson. London: William Heinemann, [1907] First Edition. Pp, 161. Olive green cloth with design of turtle and phoenix gilt inlay, black cover and spine titles. Fading & spotting to covers with gilt phoenix heavily rubbed. School prize bookplate to front pastedown, scattered spotting to page margins.

Illustrated with thirteen colour plates & numerous other drawings in the text by Arthur Rackham.

The first trade edition of Rackham’s interpretation of the Lewis Carroll classic. There was a limited Deluxe edition published the same year.

“Rackham’s next undertaking after Peter Pan was the most controversial of his whole career. This was nothing less than a fresh illustration of Alice in Wonderland, a work so completely identified with the drawings by John Tenniel that it seemed to many critics almost blasphemous for anyone to attempt to prepare alternatives.” (Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham. His Life and Work)