Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, 1914. Limited edition. Fine. One of 1,000 copies on paper (this being copy 427) printed by the Riccardi Press for the Medici Society (twelve copies printed on vellum were also produced). A lovely, Fine copy, specially bound in the publisher's full vellum titled in gilt. A bit of toning to the vellum and just a bit of bowing to boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Preliminary blank with early ink gift inscription ("To his tutor from W. Leslie Runciman") of Walter Leslie Runciman, 2nd Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1900 - 1989). A clean, fresh copy of an attractive edition.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865 and has since appeared in countless editions, notably the Salvador Dalí illustrated edition published by the Maecenas Press in 1969 and the 1932 edition signed by Alice Hargreaves (née Liddell), the inspiration for the titular character. This Medici Society edition is a lovely presentation of the beloved children's story, attractively bound in full vellum and finely printed on high-quality paper by the Riccardi Press. Inspired by the Kelmscott Press, Herbert P. Home founded the Riccardi Press as the imprint of the Medici Society in 1909, producing small, fine editions of mostly literary titles until the early 1930s. The Riccardi Press printed a wide variety of titles from the Canterbury Tales and Le Morte d'Arthur to the writing of Edith Wharton and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Fine.