{"product_id":"alices-adventures-in-wonderland-lewis-carroll-first-arthur-rackham-illustrated-trade-edition-1907","title":"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: William Heinemann, 1907. First trade Rackham edition, first impression. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with thirteen colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard, and 14 black-and-white line drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e21 x 16 cm. Pp. xi, 162. Publisher's green cloth with gold pictorial stamping on the cover and dark green lettering on the cover and spine, top edge green, illustrated endpapers. Missing the very scarce dust wrapper. A good copy, binding with a heavy lean but holding firm with solid joints and hinges. Externally there is bumping and a degree of wear to corners, as well as crushing to the slightly frayed spine tips (with a small inch-sized piece of fabric slightly coming off). The spine and joints are tanned, as usual, and there is a discoloured large patch to rear panel. There is foxing to edges and prelims, as well as sporadically throughout, and the top outer page corners are slightly bumped. Still a good copy, collated as complete, and only with a penned inscription to front pastedown (as below) and penciled inscription to rear pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInscribed to front pastedown by John Hughes (later Hugo) Rutherford. Sir Rutherford, 2nd Baronet, was a Conservative party politician and a Member of Parliament for Liverpool Edge Hill (1931-1935), and the father of one of Britain's most eminent primatologists and the world's leading expert on the taxonomy of primates, Prudence Hero Napier. Tucked inside the book is also a small gift tag featuring an Arthur Rackham illustration on one side, and the penned inscription \"Mum \u0026amp; Dad \/ A Happy Christmas \/ Lots of Love \/ Tim and Rosie\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA lovely copy, and certainly one of the most beautiful illustrated editions of Lewis Carroll's classic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53306683392339,"sku":null,"price":280.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/1907-Alices-Adventures-in-Wonderland-LEWIS-CARROLL-First-Arthur-Rackham-Edition_1.webp?v=1774358436","url":"https:\/\/sanchosrarebooks.co.uk\/products\/alices-adventures-in-wonderland-lewis-carroll-first-arthur-rackham-illustrated-trade-edition-1907","provider":"Sancho's Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}