The seated figure is an engraving from a German set of playing cards, the King and Helmet, produced sometime between 1450 and 1467

Featuring an A and a Q for Alice and the Queen, respectively

Both the A and the Q are handlettered in Procreate

The first time a Copyrights page has been more than a single page in any of my formats

Card pages are based on a fashion series of playing cards from an 1899 catalogue. They show up in: the title pages, the front matter, the joker pages, and the chapter starts.

It was not my original intention to have 'The End' be an entry in the ToC. But I like the whimsy it adds, so I left it in.

Take the place of blank pages at chapter ends for right-facing chapter starts

Each Joker is a different illustration

Made with original Tenniel illustrations

Chapter Title in 'Drink Me' Card

Chapter Start pages cycle through all four card suites; each suite appears three times

Always a right-facing page

The drop cap is huge so that the eye is drawn to the beginning of the text as a focal point. This makes reading the chapter a little easier on the eyes, because compositionally the text isn't getting overshadowed or swallowed by the Drink Me tags or the card suite.

Mushrooms, log, teacup, background foliage, paper texture and color, and yellow flowers behind page number are 100% original artwork

Everything else is hybrid: I did all the paintwork, but used public domain sources for shape and line (also true for the card pages)

I like that, in spread, the roses almost feel like spiderweb symmetry, and the text frames are vaguely butterfly-shaped.

Featuring a wide array of character representation: the dodo, the white rabbit, the caterpillar, red and white roses for the queen

Not shown here: the scene break illustration, which is a cat and two pawprints, to represent the Cheshire Cat.

The only reason I got away with this much artwork on the page is that Alice has a low wordcount (about 26k). The final product is still less than 200 pages.