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([DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] CARROLL, Lewis.) MACFARLANE, J. (illus.)
Macmillan's Coloured Wall Illustrations. Alice in Wonderland. The Dodo presents the Thimble to Alice.
First and only edition of this extremely uncommon and highly decorative poster print. Apparently the only case of Macmillan having licensed illustrations for Alice in Wonderland by an artist other than Tenniel. There is just one set of six recorded on OCLC, though COPAC adds another at Oxford, and no complete set traced at auction, with just two varnished prints offered in 1997. Most sets would have been varnished for hanging in the schoolroom or nursery, treatment that would mean that, had they survived at all, today they would be in far from collectible condition. As part of the celebrations for the first Alice's Day in 2007, the Bodleian staged an exhibition including the earliest editions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and amongst "Other highlights of the display [were] two posters from a set of 6 based on Tenniel's designs by J. MacFarlane."
(820 × 600 mm) Colour-lithographed linen-backed wall-poster. Some very light creasing and a touch of marginal spotting, otherwise fresh and clean.
