The Bodleian Library

1.00pm Magic Carpet stories
Join storyteller Peter Chand on the Magic Carpet in the Bodleian quad for a journey to faraway places and magical encounters inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Time to be confirmed.

10.00am - 4.30pm Exhibition
Another opportunity to see Salvador Dali’s illustrations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, just for one day, as well as a selection of the earliest editions of Alice and a printing plate for The Mouse’s Tale kindly on loan from the Oxford University Press archive.

Dali chose mixed-media for his illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: a heliogravure in six to twelve colours, taken from water-colour paintings, with an original woodcut superimposed on each.  For the frontispiece, he used a four-colour etching.  Dali worked on the project, off and on, for two years, and the water-colours were painted at his home in Cadaques, northern Spain.

The portfolio was hand-printed on specially made rag paper, by the Ateliers Rigal in Paris, in an edition of 2,500 numbered copies, costing, 156 each.  A super de luxe edition of 200 copies was also published, with the thirteen illustrations printed on Japon Nacre.  All but 490 copies of the edition were shipped across the Atlantic, where the publishers distributed them on a city-by-city basis, with, for example, New York receiving 550 copies, Washington 75, and Phoenix only 10.  The publishers confidently anticipated that demand would outrun supply.

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