Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

London; Macmillan Children's Books, 2021, 2021. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, with ADDITIONAL SIGNED SKETCH. Quarto, pp. xvi, [4], 315, [1]. Illustrated throughout in both colour and black-and-white. Publishers' blue pictorial paper-covered boards, with blue ribbon placemarker and pictorial endpapers, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Pencil sketch (approx. 21cm x 14cm) signed by Chris Riddell loosely laid-in. Boards slightly bruised to lower corners otherwise a near fine copy, in a near fine dust-jacket. Companion volume to the Riddell illustrated "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Gift edition of Carroll's timeless classic, produced over 200 years after the birth of the original illustrator John Tenniel. Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 UK Children's Laureate and award-winning artist, is an admirer of Tenniel's work and has here created a new interpretation of the extraordinary characters in this well-loved story. Signed by Riddell to p. [i] above illustration. Additional loosely laid-in pencil sketch by Riddell of a smartly dressed oyster which features in Tweedledum & Tweedledee's 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' poem, and can be seen in the printed illustration p 106.