‘You’re Nothing but a Pack of Cards!’ image by Arthur Rackham from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

First published 1865

Dartmouth Book Arts Workshop

Printed by Spencer Janes, 2014

Dartmouth’s English Department offers a paper called ‘The Victorians through Six Children’s Novels’ in which students gain an ‘understanding of the Victorians and Edwardians through ideas about childhood and orphanhood, literature, scientific discovery and invention, social history, the imagination and material culture.’ It requires students to make use of the Book Arts Workshop. They must select an image from one of the prescribed texts, have it printed, set a relevant quotation in type and print it. This counts for ten percent of the class mark. For his project, Spencer Janes selected an image from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by British artist Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). Rackham was one of the most notable artists of the Golden Age of Illustration (c. 1890-1920).