Ls.4.43
Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll.
[Decorah, Iowa] : Solmentes, 2020.
[60] leaves : all ill. (many col.) ; 22 cm + 1 mirror card
60 linocuts (mostly colour reduction) printed by hand on an iron handpress, 26 in colour.
Printed in reverse; supplied with a mirror card (20.5 x 12.5 cm).
"Edition of 40"-- Colophon.
Printed in an edition of 35 copies (of 40 originally planned), comprising 30 regular copies and 5 deluxe copies.
Quarter leather binding ; decorated paste-paper boards ; two gold-tooled dots on spine ; housed in dropback box of grey cloth with image of Jabberwocky as spine-label.
ECL copy is no. 19, signed by David Esslemont.
Carroll, Lewis, 1832 - 1898 Through the looking glass
Alice (Fictitious character from Carroll)
Artists' books United States Specimens.
Linoleum block-printing, American Specimens.
Children's poetry, English Pictorial works.
Esslemont, David artist.
Esslemont, David printer.
Solmentes Press publisher.
United States Iowa Decorah.
B50041