Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Leonard Weisgard’s 1949 edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is one of those rare encounters with a classic that feels both familiar and completely new. His illustrations, bold and textured, bring a distinctly mid-century sensibility to Carroll’s world — a mix of graphic clarity and imaginative looseness that suits the story’s shifting logic surprisingly well.

Weisgard approaches Wonderland not as a place of decorative whimsy but as a space where form and rhythm matter. His color choices are confident, the shapes deliberate, giving the scenes a strong visual structure without flattening their strangeness. The result is an edition that works on two levels: a celebration of Carroll’s narrative and a beautifully preserved example of the design language of its time.