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Peake's Alice: Mervyn Peake's Drawings, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

Carroll, Lewis

  • Publisher: Libanus Press 2001
  • Published: 2001 , London
  • Condition: Near Fine
London: Libanus Press 2001. 4to.Limited Edition. Limited edition - variant edition. 2 volumes. Light blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spines and front covers, in a slipcase. With illustrations throughout by Meryn Peake No. 92 of 280 copies. This is the standard limited edition, however, it comes with the portfolio suite of plates in a second volume that was issued with the 60 special editions. This copy is from the library of a Macmillan employee, so may have been prepared for them especially in a slipcase. Bears some minor markings to the slipcase, but otherwise in fine condition. Mervyn Peake had just retuned from service as a war artist when he was commissioned to illustrate Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in 1945. This Libanus Press limited edition reproduces Peake's restored drawings at their original size, celebrating Peake's skill as a draughtsman and humorist. 0948021470 . Fine. Cloth. Limited Edition. 2001.

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