What could be more beautiful than the original manuscript? This is the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, the pen-name of Charles Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician. It is called "Alice's Adventures Underground" and it is a treasure of the British Library. The book is in their online gallery and you can look at each hand-written, hand-drawn page (all 91 pages). Here is the link:
That's exactly why I like this. The head is cut off and the pose is a hoot. I used to compose my own art photos cutting off the tops of heads ..but, never the entire head. Wonder why I never thought of that?