Alice in Wonderland Playing Cards — 54 Cards
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland has always had a relationship with playing cards — the Queen of Hearts and her court are central to the story, and the logic of Wonderland itself shares something with the logic of card-based divination: rules that are real but bewildering, significance that is obvious but elusive. These 54 illustrated playing cards bring Tenniel's original illustrations into a full deck that is both a functional card game set and a collector's object of real beauty.
The artwork draws on John Tenniel's iconic illustrations from the first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), reproduced with the care they deserve. Every card features original Wonderland imagery — the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the playing card soldiers, the White Rabbit — integrated into the suit structure of a standard 54-card deck.
Functional as a playing card deck, they also work beautifully as fortune-telling cards for those familiar with cartomancy using standard playing cards — a tradition as old as tarot itself. Each suit and number carries standard cartomantic meaning, and the Wonderland imagery adds an additional layer of interpretive possibility.
This deck makes one of the finest gifts in our collection — for children who love Alice, for adults who never stopped loving her, for collectors of illustrated card decks, and for readers interested in cartomancy with standard playing cards.
Card quality is excellent — heavy stock, beautiful printing, and a finish that handles well.
Down the rabbit hole, with style.
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