{"id":9948,"date":"2020-03-08T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=9948"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:41:04","slug":"featured-snark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-snark\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: LEWIS CARROLL & PETER NEWELL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Newell built a reputation in the 1880s and 1890s for his humorous drawings and poems. <\/span>He often illustrated the works of other authors, most famously Lewis Carroll.\u00a0Charles Ludwige Dodgson, better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician and photographer. He is best known for his famous writings, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em> and Through the Looking-Glass<\/em>, & The Hunting of the Snark<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Description: <\/strong>ALL 3 PETER NEWELL ILLUSTRATED LEWIS CARROLL EDITIONS! <\/span>All First Editions of the Peter Newell illustrated edition. Hard bound with dust jackets in publishers box, as issued. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Published by Harper & Brothers, October 1901. Through The Looking Glass – Published by Harper & Brothers, October 1902. The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems – Published by Harper & Brothers, October 1903. Ivory paper covers and olive green dust wrappers, with both lettered in gilt front and spine, with a small figures in gilt lower front. Gilt top stain and deckled page edges. Each a beautifully designed volume, with page borders decorated in sage green. Text block and illustrations clean and crisp. Very minor foxing to boards. Some fading to olive green dust jackets. Wear and foxing to publishers box, otherwise very good. It’s quite unusual to see all 3 of Lewis Carroll’s classics for sale together. Rare!<\/p>\n

Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 28699<\/p>\n

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SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland<\/strong>
\n Through The Looking Glass<\/strong>
\n The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems<\/strong>
\nCarroll, Lewis; Newell, Peter
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Publisher: Harper and Brothers<\/strong>
\nPublication Date: 1901 -1903<\/strong>
\nBinding: Hard Bound with jackets in Publishers Box<\/strong>
\nIllustrator: Newell, Peter<\/strong>
\nBook Condition: Good<\/strong>
\nDust Jacket Condition: Good<\/strong>
\nEdition: First Printings of the Peter Newell Edition<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Newell built a reputation in the 1880s and 1890s for his humorous drawings and poems. He often illustrated the works of other authors, most famously Lewis Carroll.\u00a0Charles Ludwige Dodgson, better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician and photographer. He is best known for his famous writings, Alice’s Adventures in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9948"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15004,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948\/revisions\/15004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}