CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. With Ninety-Two Coloured Illustrations by Harry Rountree. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons [1908]. 4to, 248pp. Navy cloth pictorially stamped in gilt white, brown, light blue, and other colors. Pictorial endpapers; numerous color illustrations throughout. Spine ends and corners a bit rubbed, slight soiling and a few light spots to cloth, fore-edge and endpapers a tad foxed, endpapers a bit aged, else a clean, bright copy.

 

First Rountree-illustrated edition. Filled with Rountree’s imaginative and lush watercolor illustrations, this lavishly illustrated edition of Alice features Rountree’s first interpretation of the classic tale of fantasy and wonder and was one of the most profusely color-illustrated editions of Alice issued when it first entered the public domain.