In March 1920, the publishers A&C Black wrote to the renowned musician and folk song collector, Lucy Broadwood, proposing she write a collection of songs and music to accompany Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The publisher included a full list of rhymes and was very specific in what they wanted: “…we should like tunes as simple as those in “English Nursery Rhymes” and in a way – with plain tune for the right hand and simple harmonies for the left”. Songs from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, including illustrations by Folkard, was published in 1921.
This is a 1st edition of Lucy E. Broadwood's 'Songs from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass', with 12 attractive tipped-in colour plates, border designs and other illustrations printed in brown throughout by Charles Folkard. The book also features much of the exceptionally rare dust-jacket in which Folkard depicts Queen Alice conducting a rather dazed procession of Wonderland characters in song.
[No copies, other than this one, are currently being offered for sale with the original dust-jacket. SCARCE].
