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 (Description) 

Author: Lewis Carroll. (Illustrator, Eileen Soper).
Title: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll With Illustrations by Eileen A. Soper.
Publisher: London, Sydney, Toronto, Bombay, George G. Harrap and Company Ltd., 1947. First Edition Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
Language: Text in English.
Size : 8 " X 5.5 ".
Pages: 127 pages.
Binding: Attractive and Fine binding, finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red morocco, the spine and the covers hand-tooled in gilt, large gilt white rabbit on the front cover, all edges gilt, under a protective removable mylar cover. A very beautiful binding!
Content: Fine content (bright, tight and clean - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the 3  wonderful color plates and the 55 black and white in-text and full-page illustrations by Eileen Soper.

Estimate: (Scarce with practically no other copy available worldwide).

The book: Scarce First Edition in a wonderful Bayntun Binding! Beautiful First Edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Eileen Soper.

The illustrator: Eileen Alice Soper (26 March 1905 – 18 March 1990) was an English etcher and illustrator of children's and wildlife books. She produced a series of etchings, mainly of children playing, and illustrated books for other writers, notably for Enid Blyton and Elizabeth Gould. She also wrote and illustrated her own children's book. Some of her illustrations of children and animals were used in a china series for children by Paragon China in the 1930s. Later in life she concentrated on writing and illustrating wildlife books. She was a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA) and was elected a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers (RMS) in 1972.

The author: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. The poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer, inventor and Anglican deacon.

The binder: George Bayntun was born in 1873 in Bath, England. After an apprenticeship, he began his own bookbinding business in Bath in 1894, binding books by hand with great craftsmanship. Although many binders were using machines in their process, Bayntun refused to use modern techniques.