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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.

Accession number
PML 352390
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
London : Macmillan and Co., 1889.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
Trial issue.
"[All rights reserved]".
"Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans"--T.p. verso.
Edition statement and "Price two shillings" at head of title.
Dedication hidden in the dedicatory verse 'A Nursery Darlyin; the second letters of each line spell the name Marie Van der Gucht.
Cover illustrations by E. Gertrude Thomson; text block illustrations by Tenniel.
Preface dated Eastertide, 1889.
Includes "An Easter greeting to every child who loves 'Alice'", "Christmas greetings (from a fairy to a child)", and publisher's advertisements following main sequence.
Housed in red cloth folder inside red cloth and 1/4 red morocco slipcase.
Description
56 p., [7], 1 plate : col. ill. ; 26 cm
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Binding
Color pictorial boards with white cloth spine, yellow or faded orange endpapers.
Classification
Department