Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. With 48 Coloured plates by Margaret W Tarrant. London: Ward, Lock, 1916]. First Edition Thus. Pp xvi, 332, [10]. Pictorial cloth lettered in gold, with pictorial endpapers. Spine repaired otherwise, contents in good condition.

English illustrator and children’s author, Margaret Tarrant specialised in depictions of fairy-like children and religious subjects.

Her pretty, naturalistic illustrations were widely known and very popular, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s when she was very prolific and famous.