Accession number
PML 352015
Published
St. James's Gate, Dublin : [Arthur Guinness, Son & Co.], 1935 (Leeds : John Waddington Ltd.)
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
Cover title.
"These parodies and imitations of verses and scenes from 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Alice through the Looking Glass' are offered for your entertainment with the compliments of Arthur Guinness, Son & Co., Ltd., and with all due acknowledgments to the Author, Lewis Carroll, the Illustrator, Sir John Tenniel, and the Publishers, Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd."
Cover illustration signed Gilroy. John T. Young Gilroy was the Guinness Company's advertising illustrator. See Horne, Alan. Dictionary of 20th century British book illustrators. Woodbridge, Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club, 1994, p. 219.
Second of the Alice Christmas booklets produced by Guinness as a tie-in with their Alice advertising campaign. Cf. Lovett & Lovett.
"These parodies and imitations of verses and scenes from 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Alice through the Looking Glass' are offered for your entertainment with the compliments of Arthur Guinness, Son & Co., Ltd., and with all due acknowledgments to the Author, Lewis Carroll, the Illustrator, Sir John Tenniel, and the Publishers, Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd."
Cover illustration signed Gilroy. John T. Young Gilroy was the Guinness Company's advertising illustrator. See Horne, Alan. Dictionary of 20th century British book illustrators. Woodbridge, Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club, 1994, p. 219.
Second of the Alice Christmas booklets produced by Guinness as a tie-in with their Alice advertising campaign. Cf. Lovett & Lovett.
Description
[24] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
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