Skip to content

Public index · Literature

Tenniel’s 42

42

plates
Recorded

Forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

The first Alice is counted as forty-two Tenniel pictures. Neighbor to Rule Forty-two and the Snark’s boxes; not the same object.

What it supports

A received illustration count in the 1865 Macmillan Alice.

What it does not

Does not prove Carroll designed 42 as a system with Adams.

ExactnessCount

Form42

Unitplates

Strengthattested

When1865

Source

Gutenberg · Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

Owner

The Book of 42