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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll') and John TENNIEL -- 'Toves, Borogroves, and Mome Raths and the Wabe'. Original electrotype printing block for the 'People's Edition' setting of Through the Looking-Glass [c. 1887].
(147 x 91mm). Alloy-backed copper-plate electroype block. Mounted in a modern half red morocco book-form case.
A BLOCK FROM THE 'PEOPLE'S EDITION'. 'Dodgson had proved so exact, and exacting, as a critic of the way his requirements were carried out, that Tenniel, when approached about the illustrations for Through the Looking-Glass, declared he was too busy' (WMGC p.63). Tenniel, then principal artist at Punch, eventually relented and resumed one of the most outstanding collaborations between author and artist in the English language. 'While on the one hand Dodgson was urging "Don't give Alice so much crinoline" or "The White Knight must not have whiskers", Tenniel induced Dodgson to omit the "wasp" chapter on the ground that it was uninteresting, and that he was quite unable to make a picture for it: "A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of Art"' (WMGC p.63). After having influenced the way all readers did, and subsequent illustrators would, perceive Alice, Tenniel remarked that 'with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making drawings for book illustrations departed from me ... I have done nothing in that direction since' (WMGC p.64).
This block is for the 'People's Edition' of Through the Looking-Glass, which was 'entirely revised and reset; many of the changes in punctuation were adopted in the reset version of the Ordinary Edition (1897) ... [it] is today the form regarded by the publishers as standard' (WMCG p.155). Cf. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 205b.
(147 x 91mm). Alloy-backed copper-plate electroype block. Mounted in a modern half red morocco book-form case.
A BLOCK FROM THE 'PEOPLE'S EDITION'. 'Dodgson had proved so exact, and exacting, as a critic of the way his requirements were carried out, that Tenniel, when approached about the illustrations for Through the Looking-Glass, declared he was too busy' (WMGC p.63). Tenniel, then principal artist at Punch, eventually relented and resumed one of the most outstanding collaborations between author and artist in the English language. 'While on the one hand Dodgson was urging "Don't give Alice so much crinoline" or "The White Knight must not have whiskers", Tenniel induced Dodgson to omit the "wasp" chapter on the ground that it was uninteresting, and that he was quite unable to make a picture for it: "A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of Art"' (WMGC p.63). After having influenced the way all readers did, and subsequent illustrators would, perceive Alice, Tenniel remarked that 'with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making drawings for book illustrations departed from me ... I have done nothing in that direction since' (WMGC p.64).
This block is for the 'People's Edition' of Through the Looking-Glass, which was 'entirely revised and reset; many of the changes in punctuation were adopted in the reset version of the Ordinary Edition (1897) ... [it] is today the form regarded by the publishers as standard' (WMCG p.155). Cf. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 205b.
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