Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll; Introdeuction by Zadie Smith; Illustrated by Mervyn Peake

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Summary

Through the Looking-Glass is the story of Alice's progression from one end of the chess board to the other, from pawn to Queen, from eternal seven-year-old to fully grown woman. I think it was very hard for Carroll to watch her go. But to his permanent credit, he lets it happen - Zadie Smith

You are the first person to be able to illustrate the books satisfactorily since Tenniel - Graham Greene, in a letter to Mervyn Peake

Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have captivated the imagination of adults and children alike since they first appeared more than one hundred years ago. Since that time many artists have attempted to capture their dreamlike combination of impossible events, precise detail and weird logic. Mervyn Peake is one of the few to have succeeded.

Famed worldwide for his Gormenghast trilogy, Peake was also an illustrator of rare and wondrous talent. In the 1940s he was commissioned to produce a set of pen-and-ink drawings to accompany Lewis Carroll's two classics; they are among his best work as an illustrator.

Unavailable in any edition for more than twenty years, these extraordinary illustrations, many of them drawn on paper that has deteriorated rapidly over time, have been restored to their former clarity and crispness by a combination of old-fashioned craft and the latest computer technology. They have been meticulously reproduced as they were meant to be seen and are now published in an exquisite two-volume set - the first edition to do justice to a rare partnership of two great eccentric imaginations.

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