The Lewis Carroll Book, "Six Books in One" with original illustrations by John Tenniel and Henry Holiday, edited by Richard Herrick, published by The Dial Press, New York, stated Sixth Printing September 1936 [1st printing was issued October 1931].

Hard boards, original publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine; 5. 1/2" x 8. 1/2"; 439 pages, complete with all original b/w illustrations by Tenniel and Holiday, a little wear and soiling, very good condition.

Contains:

"Alice in Wonderland"
"Through the Looking-Glass"
"Phantasmagoria"
"A Tangled Tale"
"The Hunting of the Snark"
"Nonsense from Letters"

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), was an English writer and mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. He is best known for his enduring classics "Alice in Wonderland" (1865) and "Through the Looking Glass" (1875). Though ostensibly children's books, they appeal to all ages.

Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914) was an English illustrator. He drew many topical cartoons and caricatures for Punch in the late 19th century, but is best remembered today for his illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The main quality of Sir John Tenniel's work is accuracy of drawing, precision of touch, grace and dignity of conception, and so far as such things can be compatible, geniality of satire. Tenniel's work is always original, unforced and fresh; and it never suggests, what is the fact, that the artist's work is drawn exclusively from memory, and never from the model. It may be mentioned that Tenniel's wonderful observation has been conducted, and his knowledge accumulated, literally through a single eye, the other having been lost during a fencing bout in his youth. It was in recognition not only of his ability as an artist in black and white, but of his service in infusing good humor and good taste into one phase of political life, that a knighthood was conferred upon him on Mr Gladstone's recommendation in 1893.

Public exhibitions of Sir John Tenniel's work were held in 1895 and in 1900. Sir John Tenniel is also the author of one of the mosaics, Leonardo da Vinci, in the South Court in the Victoria and Albert Museum; while his highly stippled watercolor drawings appeared from time to time in the exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, of which society he was elected a member in 1874. As an illustrator on the wood -block he stands very high.

Henry Holiday (1839-1927) was an English historical genre and landscape painter, stained glass designer, illustrator and sculptor. He is considered to be a member of the Pre-Raphaelite school of art. Through his friendship with Albert Moore and Simeon Solomon he was introduced to the artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris of the "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood". Holiday was commissioned by Lewis Carroll to illustrate "The Hunting of the Snark" in January 1874. He remained friends with the author throughout his life.

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