Publication details: [Decorah, Iowa], Solmentes Press,2020,
Rare Book
Stock number: 76755
A complete re-imagining of Carroll's surreal poem, in which the calligraphic text is drawn with a broad-nibbed pen directly onto the linoleum blocks, so when printed, the words appear in reverse as Alice first saw them in Through the Looking Glass. The vivd colour illustrations in particular are typical of Esslemont's work - richly textured and intricately patterned with striking changes of perspective.
36/40 COPIES, 60 linocuts by David Esslemont, including 34 monochrome cuts of text and illustrations and 26 colour illustrations, pp. 60, 8vo, original quarter brown calf with two gilt dots on spine, densely patterned pastepaper boards, the card mirror laid in, bubbling to pastedowns (a minor production fault), grey cloth dropback box with pictorial label to spine, near fine
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