Doctor Diderot's & Mister d'Alembert's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Doctor Diderot was beginning to get very tired of sitting by Mister d’Alembert on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice he had peeped into the book Mister d’Alembert was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a book, thought Doctor Diderot, without pictures or conversations?
The 12 original copper engravings that were used to make this book come from original copies of the volumes of plates I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX of
Diderot’s Encyclopédie , published between 1762 and 1771. The available material allowed 12 copies to be made; naturally, each one contains different engravings. Altered text passages from Lewis Carroll’s
Alice in Wonderland and
Through the Looking-Glass (published 1865 and 1872 in London) were letterpress printed onto this material. The Illustrations are printed with polymer plates.
28 pages, 12 × 36.7 cm, cloth-over-board with front title label, in slipcase,
12 numbered and signed copies. Flörsheim 2018. (sold)