A private collection · Est. 2011

Down the
rabbit hole
we go.

A curated archive of Alice in Wonderland editions spanning 160 years of illustration, publishing, and wonder.

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Alice falling down the rabbit hole

The collection

160 years of
Wonderland

What makes Alice endlessly collectible is the reimagining. 160 years of illustrators, publishers, and designers each finding their own way into Wonderland. This collection holds 450+ editions, from Victorian printings to bold contemporary visions.

"Curiouser and curiouser!"
Lewis Carroll, 1865

Every book here tells two stories: the one Lewis Carroll wrote, and the one its illustrator imagined.

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Lewis Carroll 1863
Lewis Carroll, 1863

The author

Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson

Known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, Dodgson was an English author, poet, and mathematician at Christ Church, Oxford. He first told the story of Alice's adventures to ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a boat trip along the River Thames on 4 July 1862.

The story was published in 1865 with illustrations by Sir John Tenniel, and has never been out of print. It has been translated into over 170 languages and is one of the most quoted works in the English language.

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Story first told
1865
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The illustrator

Sir John
Tenniel

Sir John Tenniel (1820–1914) was the chief political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over fifty years and the most influential satirical illustrator of the Victorian age. Carroll sought him out to bring Alice to life, and the result was famously tense.

Tenniel created 92 illustrations across the two Alice books. In 1893 he became the first illustrator ever awarded a knighthood. His Alice remains the template against which every subsequent interpretation is measured.

Sir John Tenniel self-portrait
Sir John Tenniel, self-portrait c. 1889