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Lewis CARROLL Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Lewis CARROLL

Arthur RACKHAM

Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris s.d. [1908], 23,5x28,5cm, relié.


Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles [Alice in Wonderland]
Librairie Hachette et Cie | Paris n. d. [1908] | bound

With 13 illustrations by Arthur Rackham including a frontispiece portrait of Alice, a nominative hors commerce copy on Japan paper, this for Mme [Jane] Catulle Mendès, the tirage de tête before 20 more on Japan paper and 250 numbered copies on laid paper.
 
Autograph signed donorship inscription from Jane Catulle Mendès to Jenny Carré on justification page.
 
Publisher's vellum binding, gilt title and gilt illustration of the Cheshire Cat to spine, upper cover with gilt title and giltstamped illustration of two fantastical animals, illustrated endpapers and pastedowns, t.e.g.
 
A very good copy of the most sought-after of the books illustrated by Arthur Rackham, bringing together two artistic women over one of the great heroines of literature: the poet Jeanne Mette, second wife of Catulle Mendès after Judith Gautier, and Jenny Carré, illustrator and costume designer for the theater, who dressed among others Joséphine Baker and Mistinguett.

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