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When Trough the Looking glass was published in 1871, readers were as delighted with that book as they were with Lewis Carroll's first masterpiece, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In the topsy-turvy world that lies beyond the looking-glass, Alice meets such fantastical characters as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, and the Jabberwock.
For over 120 years John Tenniel's superb illustrations have been the perfect complement to Lewis Carroll's timeless story. This is the first edition of Looking-glass to reproduce Tenniel's exquisite drawings from engravings taken directly from the original woodblocks. Here, Tenniel's fine line work is far crisper, delicate shadings are reproduced with more subtlety, and details never seen before are now visible.
The pictures for the first edition of Looking-glass were created by transferring the artist's drawings to woodblocks. These original blocks served as masters from which metal plates were made for printing. Unfortunately, these plates deteriorated from the repeated pressure applied during the printing process, and over time, many of the fine lines in Tenniel's pictures simply vanished.
The original woodblocks disappeared and were believed lost; then, in 1985they were discovered in a London bank vault. Now, for the first time, engravings from these woodblocks have been used to produce a deluxe gift edition. At last, readers can see the Looking-glass that Carroll and Tenniel had originally intended.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, in 1871. Considered a master of the genre of literary nonsense, he is renowned for his ingenious wordplay and sense of logic, and his highly original vision.
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1832年、英国チェシャー州に生まれる。ラグビイ=スクールをへてオックスフォード大学クライスト=チャーチ学寮卒。母校の数学の先生になる。1865年、『ふしぎの国のアリス』出版。1871年『鏡の国のアリス』出版。1898年1月14日死亡。享年65歳
高杉 一郎
1908年、静岡県に生まれる。東京文理科大学英文科卒。福原麟太郎教授の教えをうけた。戦争までは改造社で雑誌「文藝」の編集にしたがった後、和光大学名誉教授となる。2008年1月9日没
山本 容子
1952年、埼玉県に生まれる。京都市立芸術大学西洋画専攻科修了。洒脱で洗練された独自の世界を確立し、数多くの書籍の装幀、挿画を手がける(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです) --このテキストは、 新書 版に関連付けられています。