Jeff A. Menges - Alice Illustrated: 120 Images from the Classic Tales of Lewis Carroll

Theres no sort of use in knocking, said the footman

A. E. Jackson

Dover Publications, Inc.
Mineola, New York

Copyright

Copyright 2012 by Dover Publications, Inc.
Text copyright 2012 by Jeff A. Menges
Introduction 2012 by Mark Burstein
Barry Mosers artwork from Through the Looking Glass, Pennyroyal Press (trade edition
University of California Press), 1983. Copyright Barry Moser. Used with permission.
All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note

Alice Illustrated: 120 Images from the Classic Tales of Lewis Carroll, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2012, is an original compilation of images from the following sources: John Tenniel, Alices Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan and Co., London, 1865) and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (Macmillan and Co., London, 1872); Peter Newel, Alices Adventures in Wonderland (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1901); Arthur Rackham, Alices Adventures in Wonderland (William Heinemann, London, 1907); Charles Robinson, Alices Adventures in Wonderland (Cassell & Co., Ltd., London, 1907); Millicent Sowerby, Alice in Wonderland (Chatto & Windus, London, 1907); W. H. Walker, Alices Adventures in Wonderland (John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd., London, 1907); Harry Rountree, Alices Adventures in Wonderland (Collins Clear Type Press, London, 1908); Mabel Lucie Attwell, Alice in Wonderland (Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., London, 1910); George Soper, Alices Adventures in Wonderland (George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London, 1910); A. E. Jackson, Alices Adventures in Wonderland (Henry Frowde: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914); Margaret Tarrant, Alice in Wonderland (Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London and Melbourne, 1916); Milo Winter, Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Rand McNally & Company, Chicago and New York, 1916); Charles Folkard, Songs from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (A. & C. Black, Ltd., London, 1921); Gwynedd Hudson, Alices Adventures in Wonderland (Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., London, 1922); Willy Pogny, Alices Adventures in Wonderland (E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1929); Barry Moser, Through the Looking-Glass (University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1983). An Introduction has been written by Mark Burstein specially for this edition.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Alice illustrated: 120 images from the classic tales of Lewis Carroll / selected and edited by Jeff A. Menges ; with an introduction by Mark Burstein.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-486-48204-0 (pbk.)

ISBN 0-486-48204-9

1. Carroll, Lewis, 18321898. Through the looking-glassIllustrations. 2. Carroll, Lewis, 18321898. Alices adventures in WonderlandIllustrations. I. Menges, Jeff A., editor of compilation. II. Burstein, Mark, 1950writer of added commentary.

PR4611.A73A45 2012

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2011047022

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Mark Burstein

Jeff A. Menges

Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Macmillan and Co., London, 1865 and

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Macmillan and Co., London, 1872

Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Harper & Brothers, New York, 1901

Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Willian Heinemann, London, 1907

Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Cassell & Co., Ltd., London, 1907

Alice in Wonderland

Chatto & Windus, London, 1907

Alices Adventures in Wonderland

John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd., London, 1907

Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Collins Clear Type Press, London, 1908

Alice in Wonderland

Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., London, 1910

Alices Adventures in Wonderland

George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London, 1910

Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Henry Frowde: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914

Alice in Wonderland

Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London and Melbourne, 1916

Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Rand McNally & Company, Chicago and New York, 1916

Songs from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

A. & C. Black, Ltd., London, 1921

Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., London, 1922

Alices Adventures in Wonderland

E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1929

Through the Looking Glass

University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 1983

F RONT M ATTER I LLUSTRATIONS

Title page: Harry Rountree
Contents: Charles Robinson
Introduction: Margaret Tarrant
Page ix: Arthur Rackham
Page x: Charles Robinson
The Plates: Millicent Sowerby

Tailpiece: Barry Moser

I t is one of literatures greatest paradoxes that a book whose author and original illustrator complemented each other with such divine perfection, and whose inextricably intertwined words and images are among the most revered and iconic of Western civilization, has since become the most widely illustrated novel in existence. Several factors are involved: the works lack of textual descriptions, which engenders a wide artistic license; how deeply and radically it delves into the human psyche, granting artists permission to explore their own versions of the exotic, paradoxical spaces inside Alices dream worlds; its ubiquity in our culture, calling forth an identification with its heroine or other characters and sparking childhood memories; and, it must be admitted, commercial reasons. These factors will be discussed in depth later. But let us beginas the King of Hearts instructs usat the beginning.

T he exterior life of the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was so monumentally dull that it can satisfactorily be given in its entirely in a few phrases: he was born in 1832 and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1851, where he remained as a bachelor and mathematical lecturer until his death in 1898, traveling only once outside of England (to Russia) in 1867. And yet, Dodgsons interior life, usually revealed under the nom de plume Lewis Carroll, was of such a magnitude and magnificence that today, nearly 150 years after a certain boat trip up the Isis (Thames) during which he told an amusing, nonsensical tale to the Deans three daughters (one of them named Alice), fuels a vast industry of books, movies and television productions, theater, music, merchandise, scholarship, discussion, and websites.

Shortly after the now-famous boat ride on July 4, 1862, Alice Pleasance Liddell, the ten-year-old daughter of Dean Henry George Liddell, asked her friend Mr. Dodgson to write down for her the tale he spontaneously had spun. His handwritten and self-illustrated manuscript, which he called Alices Adventures under Ground, was presented to her in November 1864. He was encouraged by many to expand the volume for publication and did so, nearly doubling its length and adding many scenes and characters, including the Cheshire Cat, the March Hare, the mad Hatter, and the Duchess.