Accession number
PML 352391
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
London : Macmillan and Co., 1889.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
"[All rights reserved]".
"Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans"--T.p. verso.
Lacking edition statement and "Price two shillings" at head of title.
Dedication hidden in the dedicatory verse 'A Nursery Darling'; the second letters of each line spell the name Marie Van der Gucht.
According to Williams, Madan and Green, probably one of 12 trial issues printed in brown, with color illustrations.
Cover illustrations by E. Gertrude Thomson; text block illustrations by Tenniel.
Note from bookseller on page facing half-title page: "Unique copy of the pre-print edition dated 1889, varying from [Sydney H.] Williams' descriptive bibliography." This statement refers to Williams's 1924 A bibliography of the writings of Lewis Carroll, which only describes one instance of the Nursery "Alice" which is a People's edition and includes the price of 2 shillings (cf. Williams, no. 57, p. 69). Williams, Madan and Green offer a probable description in the 1979 Lewis Carroll Handbook.
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 in the unnumbered pages following main sequence.
According to Sotheby's auction catalog dated London, 10 July 2012, L12404, lot 129, this copy inscribed to Daisy Walter sold at the Anderson Galleries 21 May 1928; it is unknown if Arthur A. Houghton Jr. was the purchaser.
Housed in red cloth folder inside red cloth and 1/4 red morocco slipcase.
"Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans"--T.p. verso.
Lacking edition statement and "Price two shillings" at head of title.
Dedication hidden in the dedicatory verse 'A Nursery Darling'; the second letters of each line spell the name Marie Van der Gucht.
According to Williams, Madan and Green, probably one of 12 trial issues printed in brown, with color illustrations.
Cover illustrations by E. Gertrude Thomson; text block illustrations by Tenniel.
Note from bookseller on page facing half-title page: "Unique copy of the pre-print edition dated 1889, varying from [Sydney H.] Williams' descriptive bibliography." This statement refers to Williams's 1924 A bibliography of the writings of Lewis Carroll, which only describes one instance of the Nursery "Alice" which is a People's edition and includes the price of 2 shillings (cf. Williams, no. 57, p. 69). Williams, Madan and Green offer a probable description in the 1979 Lewis Carroll Handbook.
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 in the unnumbered pages following main sequence.
According to Sotheby's auction catalog dated London, 10 July 2012, L12404, lot 129, this copy inscribed to Daisy Walter sold at the Anderson Galleries 21 May 1928; it is unknown if Arthur A. Houghton Jr. was the purchaser.
Housed in red cloth folder inside red cloth and 1/4 red morocco slipcase.
Description
56 p., [7], 1 plate : col. ill. ; 26 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
"Daisy Walter, from the Author, May 15, 1896"--In black ink, half-title page.
Provenance
Daisy Walter; Anderson Galleries (New York, 1928); from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Binding
Color pictorial boards with white cloth spine, goldenrod endpapers.
Classification
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