Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
Item date(s): 2002
Didier Mutel
- (book artist) Lewis Carroll
- (author) Sir John Tenniel
- (illustrations after)
Pages: 192pp + 224pp Size: 373mm Inscription: Signed by the artist Edition: #35/40
Theme(s): Alice in Wonderland
Place publication: Paris, France Publisher: Artists Book Cat. 48&9-C52/3 Exhibition 2017
Additional notes: This copy:
40 copies numbered from 1 to 40 with 43 (vol 1) and 50 (vol2) original copper engravings by Didier Mutel. These engravings themselves include 42 (vol 1) and 50 (vol 2) illustrations by John Tenniel, the first illustrator of Alice in Wonderland. These copies are printed on 160 gram velin d'Arches and 31 gram Sekishu-Shi Japanese paper.
Each book is numbered and signed by Didier Mutel on the date of the Colophon.
Other copies:
10 deluxe copies numbered from I to X in Roman numerals
with 42 original copper engravings by Didier Mutel. These engravings themselves include 42 illustrations by John Tenniel, the first illustrator of Alice in Wonderland. These copies are printed on 160-gram velin d'Arches and 31 gram Sekishu-Shi japanese paper. Each deluxe copy also includes and extra volume that contains 42 plates printed in four different colours, as well as a series of fifteen plates not used in the regular edition. These fifteen plates are also printed in four different colours. The whole set contains a total of 228 engravings, all numbered and signed by the artist.
Volume 1: 27 signatures, each with two folded pages and some with separate leaves tipped in..With printed red wrap-around covers. Each page is painted in a different colour.
Volume 2: 32 signatures, each with two folded pages and some with separate leaves tipped in..With printed red wrap-around covers. Each page is painted in the same red colour.
The entire volume is printed in mirror-image text but for thepreface and colophon.
Contained in two printed red slipcases.
Exhibition notes: Vol 1: Item 048 - C5-2/3 and Vol 2: Item 049 - C5-2/3 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.
UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg
25 March to 5 May 2017
Ref: GB/15078
Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland
Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There