Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - CLASSIC EDITION - FREE Lend after purchase to your friends and family for 14 days!: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson

FREE Lend after purchase to your friends and family for 14 days with Kindle Book Lending!. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson. Features a prefatory poem or 'Proem' by Austin Dobson acknowledging past and present illustrators of this remarkable tale. Recognized as one of the great pairings of an inimitable illustrator and the imagination of a remarkable storyteller, this work became an extremely influential edition with the marvellous colour plates and drawings by Arthur Rackham, showing both a dark side and a sensitivity to the fantasy and "wonder" in the story.. 'Tis two score years since Carroll's art,With topsy-turvy magic,Sent Alice wondering through a partHalf-comic and half-tragic.. Enchanting Alice! Black-and-whiteHas made your deeds perennial;And naught save "Chaos and old Night"Can part you now from Tenniel;. But still you are a Type, and basedIn Truth, like Lear and Hamlet;And Types may be re-draped to tasteIn cloth-of-gold or camlet.. Here comes afresh Costumier, then;That Taste may gain a wrinkleFrom him who drew with such deft penThe rags of Rip Van Winkle!. AUSTIN DOBSON.