CARROLL, Lewis [i.e. Charles Lutwidge DODGSON (1832-1898)]. The Nursery "Alice". London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. 4. Second (first published) edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in purple ink on half-title 'Mrs Fuller, from the Author. Mar. 25. 1890.', wood-engraved illustrations by Edmund Evans after John Tenniel enlarged from the originals and printed in colour (light foxing to half-title, occasional soiling and childish doodles, short tears to inner margin of pp.3, 17 and 57). Original cloth-backed pictorial boards by E. Gertrude Thomson (soiled, extremities rubbed).

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CARROLL, Lewis [i.e. Charles Lutwidge DODGSON (1832-1898)]. The Nursery "Alice". London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. 4. Second (first published) edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in purple ink on half-title 'Mrs Fuller, from the Author. Mar. 25. 1890.', wood-engraved illustrations by Edmund Evans after John Tenniel enlarged from the originals and printed in colour (light foxing to half-title, occasional soiling and childish doodles, short tears to inner margin of pp.3, 17 and 57). Original cloth-backed pictorial boards by E. Gertrude Thomson (soiled, extremities rubbed).

[and] Rhyme? and Reason?. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897. 8. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in blue ink on half-title 'Audrey Fuller, from the Author. Nov. 1, 1897.', illustrations by Arthur B. Frost and Henry Holiday (occasional foxing throughout). Original cloth boards (extremities lightly rubbed).

An attractive pair of presentation copies to mother and daughter. (2)

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