Alice Aforethought: Guinness Carrolls for 1938, 1938
Scope and Contents
1st Edition, 1st Issue. Cream stiff paper wraps, color illustrations both side both covers, edges yapped, stapled; no dust jacket; no endpapers; [20] pages, heavy-weight, cream; color illustrations each page; covers 23.8 x 15.5 cm. (23.0 x 15.2 cm. leaf). Single quire with 10 leaves. Presentation card from the publishers is included. This was the 3rd Guinness 'Alice' booklet. There are 9 named parodies: Alice Through the Guinness-Glass, The Three Little Sisters, Humpty Dumpty Re-Cited, The French Have a Word For It, Guinness, Where Art Thou?, Clubberwocky, Thirst Move, Pointing the Moral, & Forget-Me-Not. There are 2 unnamed parodies, one beginning, "You are Old, Father William . . ", while the other starts with, "The time has come", the Waiter said, "To talk of ordering . . ", which is illustrated with a Walrus (waiter) & Carpenter (diner). There is yet another parody, Preface-Aforeword, which features the Fish-Footman. And the Finis, may in fact, be considered a parody as well!
Dates
- Creation: 1938
Creator
- From the Collection: Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 (Author, Person)
- From the Collection: Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898 (Person)
- From the Collection: Tenniel, John, 1820-1914 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Extent
From the Collection: 24.17 Linear Feet (21 boxes, 4 oversize folders, and 2 oversize tubes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Japanese
From the Collection: Russian
From the Collection: Italian
From the Collection: French
Physical Description
Pamphlet
General
By: Robert Alexander Bevan, Ronald Barton; Illustrator: Ralph Gore Antony Groves-Raines. London, England; Arthur Guinness, Son and Company - printed by John Waddington, London
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu