CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by Michael Foreman. London: Chrysalis Children’s Books [2004]. Color pictorial boards. Blue endpapers; color illustrations throughout. Spine ends a tad rubbed, else a fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (head of spine a bit rubbed). With a bookplate signed by the artist, Michael Foreman, laid in!

 

First Foreman-illustrated edition. Two-time Greenaway Medal-winning artist Michael Foreman studied Charles Dodson’s (Lewis Carroll) original photographs of the real Alice before embarking on this project. The result is a bold, mischievous, and very real character that is surprisingly modern. As Foreman notes, young Alice Liddell “looked ready to break out of the Victorian photograph and run free.”