Alice in Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis - 1910

London; Paris; Berlin; New York; Montreal: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1910. Deluxe edition. Hardcover. Very good minus. Mabel Lucie Attwell. 148pp. Quarto [24.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards with lettering in gilt on the backstrip and front board, and a gilt stamped vignette on the front board. Bevelled edges. All edges gilt. Illustrated endpapers. The extremities are moderately bumped and rubbed, and the underlying boards are just beginning to be exposed at the bottom fore-edge corner of the front board. The front hinge is a bit soft and the text block is cracked at p. 80. There is a previous owner's name on the front pastedown, following the "The owner of this book is" statement. 12 color plates and numerous B&W illustrations. All plates present. The scarcer deluxe edition. One finds the cloth backed edition with pictorial paper over boards more frequently.

British illustrator Mabel Lucie Attwell was known later in her career for depictions of chubby babies. Her work in this "Alice" shows the influence of Jessie Wilcox Smith, as well as the Art Nouveau movement.