2 volumes. Folio.  Numerous wood-engravings by Barry Moser. UNBOUND IN ORIGINAL FOLDED SHEETS. 

 

ONE OF ONLY TWO ‘ARTIST’S COPIES’ IN SHEETS OF THE PAIR OF MASTERPIECES FROM THE PENNYROYAL PRESS.

 

LIMITED EDITIONS, each one of 350 copies signed, these copies out-of-series and designated “artist’s copy” on each colophon.  The Alice colophon additionally inscribed “For Arno / Barry Moser” with a small pencil remarque depicting a mushroom above. Without the accompanying additional suites of plates that was normally issued with bound copies of the limited edition.  Moser notes that there were only two such copies gathered as such in sheets of both works together as a set. See Pennyroyal Checklist 26 & 27. Accompanied by two copies of the “To the Reader” leaf  for Alice signed by Moser, and two unfolded invitations for a reception for the Pennyroyal Alice held at the Basilisk Press & Bookshop in London on November, 16, 1981.  

 

[With:] 

 

Original woodblock for the key motif cut by Moser used for the half-title of Alice, inscribed by Moser in ink on back: “Reversed Half-title.” 

 

[And:]

 

A binding dummy for the Pennyroyal Press editions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, folio, purple half goatskin gilt by Gray Parrot bindery, inscribed by Moser in pencil on the front free endpaper: “This binding dummy by Gray Parrot, with marbled papers by Cara Moser, was the prototype for the binding Parrot & Moser did for the Pennyroyal Press edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1982. /  Barry Moser / 8.26.21.”