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Alice in Wonderland (1865)

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A printed storybook that fell down a rabbit-hole. This is John Tenniel's 1865 Wonderland rebuilt as an interface: hairline wood-engraved linework, cross-hatched shading, ornamental drop-caps, and playing-card heraldry marching across a chalky mauve dream.

The color logic splits cleanly — flat heraldic scarlet and spade-black for the Queen's court, a powdered mauve-and-rose reverie for the dream itself. Everything reads as engraved illustration first, decoration second. Quite mad here, but impeccably typeset about it.

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  • OriginLondon, England
  • Period1865 first Macmillan edition; Tenniel plates 1864–1871
  • DesignerJohn Tenniel · Lewis Carroll · the Dalziel Brothers · Alexander Macmillan
  • MovementsVictorian book illustration · Golden Age of wood engraving · English nonsense literature

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