Illustrating Alice

An international selection of illustrated editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Since 1907, when the copyright for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland expired, there has been a world wide explosion of illustrated editions by artists who have been inspired to visualise Alice in their own fashion. There are at least three hundred illustrated English language editions and eighty from Japan. Carroll’s life and writings have been exhaustively documented but, curiously, very little has been written about the illustrated editions. The focus of Illustrating Alice is, in particular, the contemporary versions and these are discussed by experts and illustrators from nine countries. The book has a Foreword by Marina Vaizey, followed by illustrations and commentaries on the interpretation of Alice in different countries. Writers include Adriana Peliano – Brazil; Richard Newnhan – China; Selwyn Goodacre and Dennis Hall – England; Michèle Noret – France; Caterina Morelli – Italy; Prof. Mikiko Chimori – Japan; Prof. Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska – Poland; Ella Parry-Davies – Russia; Mark Burstein – United States and Canada. This is followed by reflections by artists who have illustrated Alice, with contributions by Barry Moser, De Loss McGraw and Gavin O’Keefe from the US; Ralph Steadman, John Vernon Lord, Helen Oxenbury, Emma Chichester Clark, Justin Todd, John Bradley and Michael Foreman from England; Chiara Carrer from Italy and Tatiana Ianovskaia from Russia. There is a chapter on Alice in film in which the Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer discusses his Alice film and Karen Lury, Prof. of Film and Television Studies, writes on Animating Alice: the heroine without a heart. Graham Ovenden writes an Afterword. An alphabetical checklist of all English language editions, compiled by Selwyn Goodacre and Edward Wakeling, is included.

There are 204 pages plus printed end-papers, page size 310 × 206. The book is typeset in Breughel by Charles Hall and printed by Northend Creative Print Solutions on 150 gsm Stowe Book White paper, as this prospectus. 

There will be 668 copies of which: 

600 will be Standard copies, numbered, with dust 

jacket £86.00 isbn: 978-0-9558343-7-0

68 copies will be Specials, the book bound quarter leather by Ludlow Bookbinders with a folder containing four signed and numbered giclée prints, provisionally by the artists: Alain Gauthier from France, Jan Švankmajer from the Czech Republic, Joanna Concejo from Poland, and another. £340.00 isbn: 978-0-9558343-8-7

A percentage from the sale of this book will be donated to The House of Illustration, a project founded by illustrators and their supporters to champion illustration. A London home for exhibitions, events and education will open in 2014.

To reserve a copy contact Carol Manheim.

A R T I S T S ’ C H O I C E E D I T I O N S
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Italian version