THE NURSERY “ALICE” containing twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel’s illustrations…

THE NURSERY “ALICE” containing twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel’s illustrations to “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” with text adapted to nursery readers by Lewis Carroll. The cover designed and coloured by E. Gertrude Thomson. Price Four Shillings. by (DODGSON, Rev. C. L.). < >
  • Another image of THE NURSERY “ALICE” containing twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel’s illustrations to “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” with text adapted to nursery readers by Lewis Carroll. The cover designed and coloured by E. Gertrude Thomson. Price Four Shillings. by (DODGSON, Rev. C. L.).
  • Another image of THE NURSERY “ALICE” containing twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel’s illustrations to “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” with text adapted to nursery readers by Lewis Carroll. The cover designed and coloured by E. Gertrude Thomson. Price Four Shillings. by (DODGSON, Rev. C. L.).
  • Another image of THE NURSERY “ALICE” containing twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel’s illustrations to “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” with text adapted to nursery readers by Lewis Carroll. The cover designed and coloured by E. Gertrude Thomson. Price Four Shillings. by (DODGSON, Rev. C. L.).
  • Another image of THE NURSERY “ALICE” containing twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel’s illustrations to “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” with text adapted to nursery readers by Lewis Carroll. The cover designed and coloured by E. Gertrude Thomson. Price Four Shillings. by (DODGSON, Rev. C. L.).
  • Another image of THE NURSERY “ALICE” containing twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel’s illustrations to “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” with text adapted to nursery readers by Lewis Carroll. The cover designed and coloured by E. Gertrude Thomson. Price Four Shillings. by (DODGSON, Rev. C. L.).

THE NURSERY “ALICE” containing twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel’s illustrations to “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” with text adapted to nursery readers by Lewis Carroll. The cover designed and coloured by E. Gertrude Thomson. Price Four Shillings.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1890. [12], 56[61], [3] pages. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and nineteen coloured illustrations throughout by Tenniel. Original cloth-backed pictorial white boards with designs by E. Gertrude Thomson. 4to. Second (first published) edition. Dodgson rejected the first ten thousand sets of sheets printed by Edmund Evans, because he considered the pictures were too bright and gaudy, he instructed that they be reprinted. on white, rather than 'toned' paper, with greatly improved colour reproduction. Binding rubbed and marked with slight wear to corners with small loss; spine expertly repaired; tissue guard foxed, with some transfer to the title-page, and some occasional light patches of foxing throughout. But a very, clean copy with the tipped-in ‘addendum’ slip present, which is often missing. Inscribed on the half-title in purple ink, ‘Miss Allen, from the Author. Mar 25th 1890.’ Being one of a hundred presentation copies that Carroll journeyed up to London to sign on this date (see Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, page 162). There are two references to a Miss Allen in Dodgson’s diaries. The first is on October 11th 1880: ‘Reached Miss Bayne’s soon after 5; her niece Miss Jane Allen, is on a visit there.’ Then the following day: ‘Soon after 11 I took Miss Allen to the Hulls, and we borrowed Evie and Jessie and went by Metropolitan Railway to Charing Cross, and spent two hours or so in the National Gallery. Miss Allen and I had some food about 5.45, and then set off, with Alice Hull, for the ‘Strand’ Theatre…’ The second reference is on January 12th 1894: ‘Visited Miss C Allen at the ‘Sarah Acland House’: she is recovering from paralysis.’ The dedicatee could be either.

Book ID: 14407
Tags: 19th Century Children's Books
Print this page View basket Price: £6,750.00