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Illustrations from Alice Through the Looking-Glass, or, the proper title, Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll, With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel; London, 1871; my copy is later, 1935. I have not yet scanned all 50 illustrations.

The illustrations, along with those from Alice In Wonderland, helped to make John Tenniel famous; less well-known is that the pictures were engraved (in order to print them) onto wood by the Dalziel brothers.

Alice holds the White King

Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Alice watched the White King as he slowly struggled up from bar to bar, till at last she said, ‘Why, you’ll be hours and hours getting to the table, at that rate. I’d far better help you, hadn’t I?’ B [...]

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Added: 2007-05-16

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The Red Queen and the Red King

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‘Here are the Red King and the Red Queen,’ Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of frightening them), ‘and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel – and here are t [...]

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Added: 2007-05-05

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White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves.

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This is a diagram of a chess-board, the sort one finds printed in newspapers as puzzles, with a summary of the “game” that also serves as a table of contents for the book. I will add the table of cont [...]

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Added: 2007-02-19

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A Great Huge Game of Chess

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For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country—and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it f [...]

Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, games, chess, trees

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Added: 2007-10-01

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The White Knight is Sliding Down the Poker

Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Alice looked on with great interest as the King took an enormous memorandum-book out of his pocket, and began writing. A sudden thought struck her, and she took hold of the end of the pencil, which ca [...]

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Added: 2007-06-14

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The Red Queen chastises Alice

Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“Where do you come from?” said the Red Queen. “And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don’t twiddle your fingers all the time.” Alice attended to all these directions, and explained, as w [...]

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Added: 2007-07-27

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The Queen kept crying ‘Faster! Faster!’

Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

Alice never could quite make out, in thinking it over afterwards, how it was that they began: all she remembers is, that they were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she [...]

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Added: 2008-04-14

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