Alice in Wonderland Painting Book (Tuck, c1920s) Mabel Lucie Attwell

Alice in Wonderland Painting Book

Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, [No Date] circa 1920s

Tuck publication number 200 and a painting book in their “Young Artists” series.

This copy with the compliments of Galeries Lafayette Ltd and their advertisements for the London Regent Street branch [opened 1920] to inside covers.

Card covers. Pale-brown covers with title in red, two-tone illustrations, and a colour onlay plate to front; imprint and a two-tone illustration to rear; adverts to inside covers. Sixteen pages (eight leaves) printed one side only and consisting of four colour plates on art paper by Mabel Lucie Attwell, which face four pages with uncoloured outlines intended to be painted-in. Size: 10 x 7.5 inches approx. (254mm x 193mm).

Note: Mabel Lucie Attwell illustrated Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, [1911]).

Covers a little rubbed and worn; a touch dusty in places; staples rusting. Some occasional foxing and dustiness to pages, plus some rust staining, but generally clean throughout.

Overall, light wear commensurate with age and storage but otherwise a nice, clean copy – scarce and quite lovely.

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References

JISC Library Hub Discover | Victoria and Albert Museum Libraries

John Henty, The Collectable World of Mabel Lucie Attwell (Richard Dennis, 1999)

TuckDB Ephemera | Alice in Wonderland Painting Book