Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Amaranthine Books comes in a lettered Bandersnatch Edition, limited to 26 copies, and in a numbered Jabberwock Edition, limited to 260 copies.

Creative concept for these editions is based on the idea that we wanted to put you, the reader, into Alice’s shoes. That is why all twenty illustrations (by Damir Mazinjanin) that you’ll find inside are from Alice’s point of view; each pulling you a bit further into the story and showing the plot from a unique angle. Besides these twenty, of which two are full-spread illustrations, there are certain illustrated bonuses, like small chapter illustrations and an illustrated surprise that can be find in the middle. This surprise is placed there since the two sequels are fused into one book, each beginning on one cover and ending in the middle. This is also a small tribute to the Looking-Glass world, so it seemed fitting for this edition. Another thing that heavily influenced the creative concept was the writer’s love for math and logic (and not psychedelics like many seem to think), which he loved to bend, twist and break in his writing. That was channeled through the use of optical illusions on the covers, which do exactly that kind of thing to logic in the real world.

While Jabberwock Edition is everything you might desire from a fine press edition, from its intricate covers to its capped slipcase, Bandersnatch Edition is what happens when you push the creative concept to its very limit. In order to pay tribute to the cards, which are the theme of the first book, and chess, which is the theme of the second book, both are included in its own unique way in this edition. When you open the wooden case, you are met with two chess boards so you can play the special chess variant called Alice Chess, while inside one of the boards is the deck of oversized cards. Once again, true to the creative concept you are placed in Alice’s shoes, because just like how regular cards would be a bit too big for her, the same was done with this deck. The other chess board holds the book in its special capped slipcase that “completes” it, making it an integral part of the chess set.

But once you have the book in your hands, you are met with covers draped in a luxurious, off-white fabric in case of Bandersnatch Edition, which boasts a rich texture.  Jabberwock Edition uses the same material, just in a striking orange-red colour. The illustrations on the covers were created using a jacquard technique, which means that thousands upon thousands of small threads were woven in order to produce the optical illusion.

Jabberwock Edition boasts pearl-white endpapers with a thematic pattern referencing the both books, but when you open Bandersnatch Edition, you are greeted with orange-red endpapers with the same motif. The next page reveals the real treat – there you can find the title written by hand in shimmering ink. The same goes for the sequel on the other side, but there the title is written backwards (also by hand) so it can only be read properly when pointed to a mirror. There is a small introduction by Lewis Carroll on one side, as well as a so-called “Foreafterword” on the beginning of the sequel, which explains the creative concept and the thought process behind it.

Also, with each copy comes a transparent Cheshire Cat bookmark, should you need any guidance on your reading adventures.

You can browse through pages of our fine press editions of Alice in the gallery below. Aside from different covers and endpapers, both books are same content-wise. If you like what you see, you can purchase these editions on our webshop.

There is total of twenty illustrations in the book, two of them full-spread, done by Damir Mazinjanin. Each illustration represents an important event in the book from Alice’s point of view.