| Edition |
The Pennyroyal Press Sesquicentennial edition. |
| Description |
145 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 43 cm + 1 chemise (approximately 76 unnumbered leaves of plates) |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome rdacc |
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black and white |
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polychrome rdacc |
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color |
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illustration rdaill |
| Description |
Children lcdgt |
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English lcdgt |
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Britons lcdgt |
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Men lcdgt |
| Note |
Limited edition of three hundred and fifty copies, signed and numbered by the illustrator. |
| Summary |
A little girl falls down a rabbit hold and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters. |
| Note |
Letterpress printed in four colors. Volume includes the full text of Carroll's originally published work edited by Selwyn H. Goodacre to incorporate all of Carroll's subsequent corrections, in addition to seventy-five original wood engravings by Barry Moser. Scholarly notes by James R. Kincaid are letterpress printed in the margins in red. Frontispiece is a woodcut illustration of the King of Hearts by Barry Moser. Volume is half bound in blue leather with leather hinges, marbled-paper-covered boards, gold tooling, printed end papers, and yellow sewn head and tail bands. Portfolio includes a signed note about the wood engravings and signed plates of each illustration included in the volume. Portfolio is gray cloth over boards. Issued in a quarter-leather, drop-spine, gray-cloth-covered box with gold tooling. |
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"Printed ... in an edition of three hundred and fifty copies, of which fifty have been reserved for participants & patrons. The type is Monotype Bembo and Bembo Italic, with Alfred Fairbanks' Condensed Italic & John Peters' Castellar. It was composed & cast at the type foundry of Michael and Winifred Bixler, Boston; with considerable hand composition being done entirely by Arthur Larson at the Press. The calligraphy on the title page is the work of G. G. Laurens, as is the versal 'A' of the first chapter opening, which was engraved & hand-colored by Barry Moser. The binding is from the workshop of Gray Parrot, Easthampton, Massachusetts. Harold McGrath printed the text & blocks on Pulegium, a paper specially made for Pennyroyal by the Strathmore Paper Company. The printing was completed on New Year's Eve, 1981"--Colophon. |
| Subject |
Alice (Fictitious character from Carroll) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Fantasy -- Juvenile fiction.
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Imaginary places -- Juvenile fiction.
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Fantasy.
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Fantasy (DNLM)D005201
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Fantasy. (OCoLC)fst00920687
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| Indexed Term |
Children's stories in English 1837-1900 Texts |
| Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726607
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Fantasy fiction.
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Wood engravings.
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Prints.
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Artists' books.
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Woodcuts.
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Fantasy fiction.
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| Added Author |
Moser, Barry, illustrator.
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McGrath, Harold, printer.
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Kincaid, James R. (James Russell), writer of supplementary textual content.
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Goodacre, Selwyn H. (Selwyn Hugh), 1940- editor.
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Larson, Arthur (Printer), compositor.
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Gray Parrot, Inc., binder.
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Press and Letterfoundry of Michael & Winifred Bixler, compositor.
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Strathmore Paper Company, papermaker.
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| Added Title |
Alice's adventures in Wonderland
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Alice's adventures in Wonderland.
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| Related To |
Reproduced as (manifestation): Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Alice's adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in Wonderland. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1982] 0520048202 (DLC) 82040110 (OCoLC)8876035 |
| ISBN |
9780520048157 |
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0520048156 |
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