Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated Bibliography (Contemporary Editions)
Most Beautiful Editions of Alice in Wonderland: Contemporary Editions
Collecting Alice
There are hundreds and hundreds of different illustrated versions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Including them all in this list would be a daunting task, and to my mind maybe not so useful, as some are much more beautiful than others. The illustrated bibliography below therefore includes only those editions that really stand out in some special way.
This list is mainly focused on English language editions, but there are also a few foreign language editions because they are just too stunning to leave out. If you’d like to see inside the books, I also have a fun youtube video that gives you an in-depth ‘illustrated tour’ of many of the Alice books on my own bookshelf, and there’s also a blog post with a little bit of the book’s history. (Page 2 and Page 3 of this collection have reviews of earlier illustrated editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass books – most of which are now out of print – while Page 4 has some fun gifts and the best of the Alice spin-off series and Page 5 has several interesting foreign editions).
I’ve included plenty of illustrations to give you a feel for the books, and if you click on the thumbnail images in the gallery you can embiggen them to see more detail. I keep this page regularly updated, so feel free to bookmark it and come back and browse to see what new editions make it on as time goes by…
Only beautiful editions are included here, but some of my top faves are marked with a ★. Also, I’d genuinely love to know which edition is your favourite (or, if you’re like me, which long list of editions are your favourites, because it’s too hard to narrow down to just one), so do please share in the comments! And also if you think there is an amazing edition that should be included in the list, definitely do suggest it in the comments section ㋡
Illustrated List of Alice in Wonderland Editions
Jump to: Contemporary editions (2011-present) [this page] | → Information age (1971-2010) | Midcentury (1931-1970) | Early editions (1865-1930) | Alice Spin-Off Stories | Gifts, trinkets & other fun Wonders from Wonderland | Alice in Translation
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Contemporary Editions
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Puffin Illustrated Classics
Puffin. Aug 14, 2025.
Illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton. More information TBC.
➤ Buy from Amazon | Waterstones | Blackwells
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Puffin Clothbound Classics
Puffin. Jun 19, 2025.
❦ Part of the Puffin Clothbound Classics collection
Full cloth cover with generous gilt accents and bound-in satin ribbon bookmarks. B&W Tenniel illustrations. (Glue-bound text though).
➤ Find it at Amazon | Waterstones | Blackwells
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Shakespeare and Company
Penguin Books. Nov, 2024.
A special paperback edition, with a delightful wraparound cover by Neil Gower, available exclusively at Shakespeare and Company in Paris. With John Tenniel’s classic illustrations.
➤ Find it at Shakespeare and Company
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Signature Clothbound Classics
Union Square. Nov 5, 2024.
❦ Part of the Signature Clothbound Classics collection
Contains both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Full cloth cover with gilt accents and decorative stencilled page edges. B&W Tenniel illustrations.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Arcturus Deluxe Classics
Arcturus. Nov 5, 2024.
❦ Part of the Arcturus Deluxe Children’s Classics collection
Contains Alice in Wonderland as well as two letters written by Lewis Carrol to his young readers: ‘An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves Alice’ and ‘A Christmas Greeting from A Fairy to a Child’. Decorative stencilled page edges, and classic Tenniel illustrations colorised by Katy Jackson.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
Alice In Wonderland Art Novel – Bond & Grace
Bond & Grace. Nov 1, 2024.
Contains both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, with over 60 bespoke original artworks inspired by the text, new scholarly commentary including thoughtful annotations, a new introduction, and a biographical essay from a team of global scholars.
➤ Find it at Bond & Grace
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Masterpiece Library
Peter Pauper Press. Oct 30, 2024.
Contains both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Embossed cover with iridescent highlighting, quarter cloth-bound spine, cream pages, matching satin ribbon bookmark. B&W Tenniel illustrations, with 8 coloured plates.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Blackwells
Alice Through the Looking Glass – Chiltern Classics
Chiltern Editions. 9781914602559. Oct 29, 2024.
❦ Part of the Chiltern Classics series
Textured cover design (matching the psychedilic design of Chiltern’s previous edition of Alice in Wonderland) with gilt edges, creamy pages, and a built-in ribbon bookmark. B&W Tenniel illustrations.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells
Alice in Wonderland – Wordsworth Heritage Classics
Cover art by William Kilburn, designed by Nichola Trayler
Wordsworth Editions. 9781840228694 . Sep 2, 2024.
❦ Part of the Wordsworth Heritage Classics collection
Quarter bound in linen cloth, with an elegant cover design based on a botanical print by William Kilburn. B&W Tenniel illustrations.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Waterstones | Blackwells
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – LitJoy Illustrated Classics
Illustrated by Rosie Fowinkle
LitJoy Publishing, 2023
Papercut cover design, 4 papercut spreads, a tea party pop-up, color illustrations and chapter headings throughout.
➤ Find it at LitJoy
❦ LitJoy video review – Alice is at 10:00
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by Julia B. Lloyd and John Tenniel
Independently Published, 2023
Illustrated with digital collage based on Tenniel’s original illustrations.
➤ Find it at Amazon
Illustrated by Paolo Barbieri
Llewellyn Publications, 9780738775852, 2023
Presents Lewis Carroll’s classic story, but the artwork reinterprets Alice as a teenager exploring Wonderland.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Bookshop.org | B&N | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Other Tales – Rockpoint Timeless Classics
Rock Point. Apr 18, 2023. ISBN 9781631069291.
❦ Part of the Rock Point Timeless Classics collection
Contains both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, along with nonsense poems, including “The Hunting of the Snark” and “Jabberwocky”, the novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, Carroll’s essays and other miscellaneous writings. B&W Tenniel illustrations.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: Festive Edition
Illustrated by John Tenniel
Pan Macmillan, 9781529094268, 2022
A small format hardback limited edition released in a ‘festive’ format, with red text, a foiled festive cover, a Christmas letter from Lewis Carroll as a foreword, and sprayed gold page edges.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Platinum Jubilee Edition
Illustrated by John Tenniel
Pan Macmillan, 9781529091359, 2022
A small format hardback limited edition released to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign, with blue text, a foiled Union Jack cover, and sprayed silver page edges.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Easton Press Deluxe Illustrated Edition
Illustrated by Arantza Sestayo
Easton Press, 2022
Large leatherbound edition, with eight full-color and nine pencil illustrations by acclaimed artist Arantza Sestayo, hand-tipped into the book. Each hand-numbered copy is signed by Arantza Sestayo, the book comes in a custom-crafted clothbound slipcase, and the total limitation is 1,200 copies.
➤ Find it at Easton Press
★ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith
Templar Editions, 9781787415607, 2021
A clothbound gift edition, with whimsical Baker-Smith illustrations in an edition that matches his illustrated edition of Wind in the Willows a few years ago.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Bookshop.org | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Once Upon a Story: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by Lindsay Dale-Scott
Silver Dolphin, 9781684123230, 2021
A brightly illustrated edition with an embossed canvas cover, foil detailing and a ribbon bookmark.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Bookshop.org | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
★ Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
Illustrated by Chris Riddell
Pan Macmillan, 9781529007503, 2021
A beautiful full-colour gift edition, matching the earlier release of Riddell’s illustrated Alice, once again featuring a foiled jacket and ribbon bookmark, profusely illustrated throughout by Riddell.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
★ Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Amaranthine Limited Edition
Illustrated by Damir Mazinjanin
Amaranthine Press, 2021
Two absolutely stunning handmade limited editions by Amaranthine Press, known as the Jabberwock (260 copies) and Bandersnatch (26 copies) editions. The creative concept behind these editions was to put the reader in Alice’s shoes, and they feature bold eye-catching illustrations done from Alice’s point of view. There’s a beautiful gallery on the publisher’s website if you’d like to look at all the details, which range from optical illusions to custom chessboards. These books are incredible and tightly held by collectors, so not easy to find on the secondhand market.
★ Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
Illustrated by Oleg Lipchenko
Self-published, 2020
A stunning limited edition Looking-Glass that matches Oleg’s oversized illustrated edition of Alice, originally available through Kickstarter and Indigogo campaigns.
➤ Find it at Oleg Lipchenko’s site
★ Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Illustrated by Floor Rieder
Pushkin, 9781782692843, 2020
A beautiful clothbound tete-beche ‘flip book’ which contains the texts of both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Floor Rieder’s gorgeous boldly coloured drawings are a joyous topsy-turvy imagining of Wonderland.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
★ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by Chris Riddell
Pan Macmillan, 9781529002461, 2020
A beautiful full-colour gift edition with foiled jacket and ribbon bookmark, profusely illustrated throughout by Riddell.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
Kate Bailey, Simon Sladen and Kristjana S Williams
Victoria & Albert Museum, 9781838510046,
2020
Explores the global impact of Alice in Wonderland across art, design and performance, and as well as classic art it also includes specially commissioned interactive illustrations.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Bookshop.org | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Alice in Wonderland: A Puzzle Adventure
Aleksandra Artymowska
Templar, 9781536210392, 2020
A delightful set of Alice-inspired mazes, packed with references to the story.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Bookshop.org | B&N | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Chiltern Publishing, 9781912714735, 2020
❦ Part of the collectible Chiltern Classics series
A psychedelic cover for this edition, which fits nicely in one hand, and features a textured cover, gilt edges, high quality paper and a sewn binding.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
The Wonderland Collection (Seasons Edition: Summer)
Lewis Carroll
Thomas Nelson, 9780785234548, 2020
❦ Part of the collectible Seasons Editions series
A lovely edition with a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping and collectible bookmark. Individually numbered and limited to 10,000 copies. Includes Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and A Tangled Tale – although oddly Looking Glass is printed before Alice.
Illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
Folio Society, 2019
❦ Also check out my Charles van Sandwyk collector’s guide
The ‘standard’ edition of Folio’s earlier limited edition with ever-delightful van Sandwyk illustrations and new endpaper maps. It is a smaller format than the original LE, and features a new cover design, slipcase and additional watercolour illustrations.
➤ Find it at Folio Society | Abes | eBay
★ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Illustrated by MinaLima (Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima)
HarperDesign, 9780062936615, 2019
❦ Part of the wonderful MinaLima interactive children’s classics series…
❦ Bonus: Read/watch an in-depth review of this edition here…
Alice as illustrated by the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise. Delightful interactive features include: Alice with extendable legs and arms; the rabbit’s house which opens to reveal a giant Alice; the Cheshire cat with a pull tab that removes the cat and leaves the cat’s grin; a flamingo croquet club that swings to hit the hedgehog; and a removable map of the Looking Glass world.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Bookshop.org | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by Júlia Sardà
Pan Macmillan, 9781509897582, 2019
An elegant unabridged edition of Alice, with gold embossing on the cover and over 30 full colour illustrations. A nice companion volume to this edition is One Day in Wonderland, a non-fiction exploration of Lewis Carroll’s life and wordplay by the same illustrator.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Other Stories (B&N Leatherbound Classics)
Illustrated by John Tenniel
Barnes & Noble, 9781435166240, 2018
Bound in blue bonded leather, this edition features all of Carroll’s best-known works, including Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also features Carroll’s novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, his masterpiece of nonsense verse “The Hunting of the Snark,” and miscellaneous poems, short stories, puzzles, and acrostics.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Lewis Carroll, introduced by Michael Irwin
Wordsworth Classics, 9781840227802, 2018
❦ Part of the sweet and affordable Wordsworth Collector’s Classics series…
A simple edition (glued binding) that comes with an introduction and notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Bookshop.org | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
Gillian Beer
University of Chicago Press, 9780226041506, 2019
This book examines the contexts within which the Alice books were created in the 1860s, a moment of intense intellectual upheaval, as new scientific, linguistic, educational, and mathematical ideas flourished. It aims to bring back the zest to jokes lost over time and poignancy in hidden references.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by Charles Santore
Sterling, 9781604337112, 2017
A lushly illustrated edition that comes complete with three large gatefolds, a poster, and a keepsake envelope.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
★ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Folio Society Limited Edition)
Illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
Folio Society, 2016
❦ Part of the Folio Society limited edition collection of cherished tales….
❦ Also check out my Charles van Sandwyk collector’s guide
This edition won the Book of the Year Award in 2016. It features a signed, limited tipped-in etching, 11 tipped in colour plates and 9 ‘paper scraps’ (small tipped in illustrations, printed on art paper and individually placed in the book). Other illustrations include hand-drawn initials, and 50 embedded line-drawings printed in black and gold ink. A limited edition of 1,000 copies. Stunning, but now OOP. A smaller non-limited edition with almost all of the same illustrations was released in 2019 and is listed above.
➤ OOP. Find it at Abes | eBay
Alice’s Puzzles Through the Looking-Glass
By Jason Ward
Carlton Books, 9781780979618, 2016
A selection of puzzles and vexing riddles, all related to the characters, language and locations uncovered in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. Makes use of the classic Tenniel illustrations.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Bookshop.org | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Lewis Carrol’s Alice Through The Looking-Glass
Adapted by Kay Woodward, illustrated by Patricia Moffett
Carlton Books, 9781783121830, 2016
This is a children’s novelty edition with flaps and other paper engineering. A delicate balance between cute and slightly creepy.
★ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by David Delamare
Wendy Ice, 2016
A limited 150th anniversary edition. Bound in cloth with a circular paper circular illustration of Alice pressed onto the front cover. 96 color illustrations, 34 of which are based on traditional oil paintings. The layout features at least one illustration on every page spread of the story, with page breaks designed to facilitate reading aloud. OOP. (Image reproduction is not permitted, visit the author’s site to view.)
➤ Find it at DavidDelamare.com | Abes | eBay
Disney Alice in Wonderland: Special Collector’s Manga
Adapted and illustrated by Jun Abe
TokyoPop, 9781427856562, 2016
Tim Burton’s vision of Alice in manga style – limited hardcover release. Alice Kingsleigh was a young girl when she visited the magical world of Underland for the first time. Now a teenager, she spots a white rabbit at a garden party and tumbles down a hole after him where she learns it is her destiny to end the Red Queen’s reign of terror.
Illustrated by John Tenniel
Macmillan, 9781447275992, 2015
If you are after a copy of Alice with Tenniel’s iconic illustrations, I highly recommend The Complete Alice, including both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, is really the ultimate edition of Lewis Carroll’s much-loved classic, from the original publisher, Macmillan. If you only want one classic edition of Alice in Wonderland, then this is the one I think you should get.
Packed full of amazing exclusive extra features from the Macmillan archive and a foreword by Philip Pullman, The Complete Alice also has a glorious die-cut cover with intricate embossed two foil detail, head and tail bands, red foiled edges and a ribbon marker – a gift edition to treasure.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Edited by Martin Gardner
Macmillan, 9780393245431, 2015
A comprehensive collection of Carrollian scholarship, this volume compiles over half a century of works by leading Carrollian experts to reveal the history and full depth of the Alice books and their enigmatic creator. In includes Martin Gardner’s legendary original 1960 publication, The Annotated Alice; his follow-ups, More Annotated Alice and the Definitive Edition; his continuing explication through the Knight Letter magazine; and additions and updates edited by Mark Burstein, president emeritus of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
The Nursery Alice (facsimile edition)
Illustrated by John Tenniel
Macmillan, 9781447287117, 2015
The Nursery Alice, originally published by Macmillan & Co. in 1890, was the very first colour edition of Alice. With a new, younger readership in mind, Carroll rewrote Alice, simplifying and abridging the original text, while Tenniel redrew, enlarged and coloured twenty of his iconic illustrations (with Alice here in a yellow dress), along with the delightful cover artwork by Emily Gertrude Thomson.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland
Jonathan Green, illustrated by Kev Crossley
Snowbooks, 2015
A choose-your-own adventure style book. Alice finds herself back in Wonderland and called upon to save the world of playing cards and talking animals from the increasingly deranged Queen of Hearts. But all is not as it first appears in the fluctuating dream world and soon Alice is battling to save herself from the nightmare that is rapidly overtaking the realm. A hardback limited edition of 80 copies was also released of this volume, along with various coloring-in books featuring the somewhat gruesome artwork.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Panorama Pops
Adapted and illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith
Walker Books, 9781406361728, 2015
A small edition presented in a charming slipcase, the book unfolds to reveal ten classic moments in the story, from Alice falling down the rabbit-hole to the Mad-Hatter’s tea party. Published in association with the Royal Mail with a matching set of stamps.
★ Alice in Wonderland: Classics Reimagined
Illustrated by Andrea d’Aquino
Rockport, 9781631590757, 2015
❦ Part of the fabulous Rockport Reimagined Classics series…
Gorgeous watercolour illustrations and clever additions like text printed on the page block on the first edition hardbacks.
Alice in Wonderland Sesquicentennial Edition
Afterthought by Brian Sibley
Inky Parrot Press & Artist’s Choice Editions, 2015
Limited edition, with 240 standard copies and 56 ‘special copies’ presented in a solander box with a suite of four signed prints. Includes sophisticated colour illustrations by a remarkable array of artists from around the world, including Mini Grey; Ian Beck; Robi Dwi antono; Valery Kosachev; Janet Woolley; Anne Vansweevelt; Jonny Hannah; and others.
★ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by Anna Bond
Penguin, 9780147515872, 2015
Alice realised in Anna Bond’s signature, whimsical style illustrations in full colour. (Anna is from the Rifle Paper stationery company). Fun hidden cover under the dust jacket.
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★ Alice au pays des merveilles and Alice de L’Autre Cote Du Miroir [French]
Illustrated by Benjamin Lacombe
Cernunnos, 2015
Lacombe’s absolutely magical baroque fantasy Wonderland is a world full of satirical references. The fantastic illustrations use gouache, oils and watercolours to create a graphic and surrealistic landscape. The book is available in French, German and Spanish. An English version has been promised for many years but has not yet eventuated.
➤ OOP. Find it at Abes
Illustrated by Rebecca Dautremer
Hachette, 9781444930207, 2015
Gorgeous oversized volume, with French artist Rebecca Dautremer’s dreamlike illustrations.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (B&N Flexibound)
Illustrated by John Tenniel
Barnes & Noble, 9781435159549, 2015
An affordable bright pink flexibound edition with decorative endpapers, ribbon bookmark and classic Tenniel illustrations.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Usborne Illustrated Originals)
Illustrated by Fran Parreno
Usborne, 9781409533016, 2014
Some charming illustrations of Alice, part of the Usborne Illustrated originals series of children’s classics.
Harvey Kurtzman et al
IDW Publishing, 9781613779132, 2014
Some of the greatest comic book artists ever to put pen to paper tumble down the rabbit hole for their own unique look at Lewis Carroll’s famous creation.
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Illustrated by Kriss Sisson
Seven Seas, 9781626920613, 2014
An omnibus edition of both volumes with cute manga-influenced illustrations.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Adapted and illustrated by Rod Espinosa
Dark Horse Books, 9781616550462, 2013
A comic adaptation that is aimed at children – although faithful to the story, much of the text has been cut.
➤ OOP. Find it at Abes | eBay
By Maina Viazey et al
Artist’s Choice Edition, 2013
A celebration of the many illustrators who have taken up the Alice challenge. Includes essays on Wonderland, Looking-Glass & Alice in different countries, as well as a checklist of around 300 English illustrated editions and artists of non-English language Editions, including 80 from Japan. Contemporary versions are discussed by critics and illustrators from nine countries including Brazil, China, England, France, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia, USA & Canada. A fascinating collection. 500 copies produced of the limited and standard editions.
Alice in Wonderland (Canterbury Leatherbound Classics)
Illustrated by John Tenniel
Canterbury Classics, 9781607109334, 2015
An inexpensive green bonded leatherbound edition with the classic Tenniel illustrations. Part of the Canterbury Classics series.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Best-loved Classics)
Adapted and illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark
HarperCollins, 9780007425082, 2013
Abridged text and sweet illustrations makes this a sweet picture book for children, with a bright cover and bright but gentle watercolours inside.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by Maggie Taylor
Jerry N Uelsmann, 2012
Taylor fuses European iconography, victorian portraiture and early photography with surrealism, digital technology and contemporary American art to create interesting photographic illustrations of Alice. Each of Taylor’s Alice’s is a different Victorian Alice, reimagining her as “every girl”.
★ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by Iassen Ghiuselev
Simply Read, 9781897476420, 2012
Iassen’s Wonderland is a gorgeous Escher-like landscape/ The book is stunning, with an adorable “read me” bookmark. The twist is that every illustration is actually part of a single painting that you can see in its entirety under the dust jacket. A fantastic edition.
➤ Find it at Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
★ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Illustrated by Yayoi Kusama
Penguin, 9780141197302, 2012
Since childhood, Kusama has had a rare condition that makes her see colorful spots on everything she looks at. Her vision, both literally and creatively, is thus naturally surreal, almost hallucinogenic.
➤ Find it at Amazon | Bookshop.org | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Abes | eBay
Alice in Wonderland Through the Visual Arts
Edited by Gavin Delahunty
Tate Publishing, 9781854379917, 2011
A catalog for the Tate Liverpool Exhibition, this volume examines a wide range of artworks inspired by the Alice stories, including Lewis Carroll’s original illustrations, Tenniel’s iconic characterisations, Victorian games based on Alice, surrealist paintings, sculpture, artist’s books, film, psychedelia, comics, photography and installations.
Adapted and illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark
HarperCollins, 9780007316137, 2009
Abridged text and sweet illustrations makes this a sweet picture book for children, with a bright cover and bright but gentle watercolours inside.
19 Comments
Lisa richards · 15 November 2024 at 1:02 am
Hi I was looking for some information really as a young child roughly 8 0r 9 I was gifted a small sized red covered book of alice in wonderland, it was second hand and a it had alice in wonderland story on the main side but when finished that story I had to close the book and flip it over to read the story of alice through the looking glass. I have hunted over the years to find another like it an still never cone across one. The hard cover book I had was gold edging red flock I believe ( I don’t remember if it ever had a cover) it had black an white sketches with around 5 or 6 coloured sketches with glossy paper. It was quite a small book bur bigger than my hand as a child. Somehow it was lost over the years of child hood ( think my mum threw it away to be honest). I would love to know if there was anyone else who had this flip over upside down version of the two stories combined in one book version. I look forward to hearing back with any possible answers please. Many thanks in advance from lisa in the UK.
Lisa richards · 15 November 2024 at 1:05 am
The year given to me would roughly have been about 1978 ish.
Elaine Squire · 23 October 2024 at 9:01 pm
I have a collection of beautiful Alice books and memorabilia from my friend who died earlier this year. His main interest in collecting was the illustrator range. We have quite a lot – r as thing from Dali to Philip Gough; from antiques and first editions to brand new collector editions. I’m reaching out for anyone interested in buying and rehoming some of the collection
Bao-Linh Nguyen · 14 October 2024 at 10:43 am
Hello! As a child/young teen, I was gifted a copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland that was lost as my family moved around. I found this list and wondered if you had ever encountered this edition before? I remember it was a hardcover edition with green leather or faux leather and perhaps silver gilded edges, and the Tenniel black and white illustrations (it may or may not have had an illustration “plate” on the cover too), and maybe it had a dust jacket that I lost as a child? It used really thick glossy cream-colored paper. In any case, thank you for this list! 🙂
Daisy · 14 October 2024 at 11:27 am
Hi there – hope we can help you find your edition! Can you let me know around what year were you gifted the copy, was it new at the time, and what country were you in?
Bao-Linh Nguyen · 16 October 2024 at 6:02 am
Thank you so much!! It was new and in the USA. I think I was given it in the 1990s or so?
Evelyn · 23 October 2023 at 4:38 am
I love, love, love the Helen Oxenbury illustrated edition to read to my children. “in Wonderland” with the cream dust jacket, was printed on the most amazing, thick, textured paper and a wonderful spine that is sewn and lies perfectly flat. Sadly, my copy of “Through the Looking Glass” has a cheaper, glossy paper and glued spine. So sad! Do you know if they released a copy of “Through the Looking Glass” with the Helen Oxenbury illustrations and the high quality paper and spine?
Sarah · 31 December 2022 at 7:19 am
I have a hard cover Green book of ALICE’s Adventures in Wonderland which has four full-page colored plates and numerous illustrations it says (“McKay’s young people’s classic” Philadelphia David McKay, Publisher 604-8 South Washington Square). I can’t find at date or any copies online except small maybe newspaper articles with the title or publisher address. Would you be able to tell me anything about this copy, like when it was published? Thank you so much
Catalina · 24 February 2022 at 10:01 am
You also have the version of Robert Ingpen. It’s my favourite.
Daisy · 27 February 2022 at 10:02 pm
Robert Ingpen’s illustrations are delightful – I actually have a whole shelf of children’s classics he has done in this style – they are beautiful editions! ❤️
Sara Rath · 23 February 2022 at 12:35 pm
Oh man. I am so happy I stumbled upon this mega list. I have been collecting Alice in Wonderland books and spin offs and movie versions for a few years now. I have 35 different illustrated copies. New and vintage. I have a few in different languages. I even found a play book. I started going through your list and have found some that are really beautiful. I cant wait to see pages 2-4. Right now my favorite copies are
the MinaLima,
One published by Charles E Tuttle co. Illustrated by Peter Newell.
And the Salvador Dali.
Daisy · 27 February 2022 at 10:01 pm
Wonderful! I always love to hear about the Alice collections of other book lovers 💕 I have quite a few French editions, but there are some amaaazing Spanish and Russian ones as well. Thanks for writing, Dx
Lux · 9 December 2022 at 3:14 am
Hi Sara,
I agree 100 percent with you. Daisy’s website is so magnificent, it made me start collecting Alice as well! :))
My favourite editions are the Inky Parrot Press ones, as well as several French ones
Laura · 7 September 2024 at 8:29 pm
Yes! We found the Dali copy at the local library and it’s quite delightful seeing the abstract interpretations.
Daisy · 7 September 2024 at 8:46 pm
Fab!
Mitali · 12 September 2021 at 1:22 am
Hello daisy, I want your opinion on buying folio society alice. What is the difference in limited and available edition. Will the book feel inferior to limited edition. Specially when it is not ever available in india and I have to ask a relative to receive and bring it when he visit India from UK.
Daisy · 14 September 2021 at 3:14 pm
Hi! There’s a huge difference between the limited and standard van Sandwyk Folio Alice in terms of cost and size, but not so much with content. The limited edition is really a collector’s item – it enormous, it has special ‘paste-ins’ (some of the illustrations have been pasted in as scraps of paper, to resemble a practice from Victorian times), it’s bound in leather, etc. It was expensive when released and even more so now it’s out of print. I assume here you’re talking about the standard van Sandwyk edition (because FS have also published editions illustrated by Tenniel) has the same illustrations as the LE (in fact, he added a couple more!) but is a much more readable size – being ‘normal’ book size (it’s about half as big and a quarter as thick as the LE). So yes, the two books look and feel very different. The LE is obviously a very luxurious collector’s item. However, Folio’s “standard” editions are beautiful, and the standard edition is a stunning book that will not disappoint, and it is far more likely you would use and enjoy it. I have a video that includes the LE Alice which might give you a better idea of the size: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRjvoYuhTkE. It also gives a comparison between the LE and standard editions for Wind in the Willows and Rubaiyat which gives you a feel for the difference. Let me know if you have any other questions, happy to help! I’ll try to put together a comparison video but it might take a while…
Christy · 4 November 2020 at 2:00 am
Just want to say thank you for compiling this amazing Alice list! I’m also a fan of your mid-year and holiday posts and videos. Thank you from a novice book collector 🙂
Daisy · 4 November 2020 at 2:18 pm
Thanks so much for the kind words! (I really do love Alice books ?). I’m working on my end of year review right now, so I hope you enjoy that one too as it should be out soon ?