Alice's Adventures In Wonderland [together with] Through The Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found There. by CARROLL, Lewis (author). Gennady KALINOVSKI (illustrator) - 2018

2018. Church Hanborough, Oxford; Inky Parrot Press. 2018. Tall 4to. 2 volumes; original russet and brown cloth-backed buff boards, respectively, pictorially blocked in black to all covers and lettered in red, pictorial endpapers (different in each volume), preserved in blue board slipcase with full-size decorated label to upper side; pp. [ix], 10-157 + [v]; with pictorial title-pages, volume 1 with a self-portrait of the artist after a painting in oils and a wealth of glorious illustration throughout with artwork on almost every page, in both full colour and black and white, and including many double-page spreads; volume 2 equally abundantly illustrated but more in black and white and monochrome, although with many tinted illustrations and some in full colour; a fine set. First editions thus, limited to only 160 numbered Standard copies; there were an additional 48 Special copies. This attractive private press edition is typeset in Breughel by Charles Hall, printed on Stow Ivory paper and bound by Ludlow Bookbinders. This edition of Wonderland is taken from both Gennady Kalinovski's black and white edition of 1944 and from his coloured version of 1988, which were originally published by Detskaya Literatura, Moscow.