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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll"). The Nursery "Alice". London: Macmillan and Co., 1890.
4o (253 x 194 mm). Colored frontispiece and 19 color illustrations after John Tenniel. Original cloth-backed colored pictorial boards illustrated by Gertrude Thomson (soiled and rubbed, extremities worn and chipped); cloth slipcase. Provenance: Rosenbach Collection (card laid-in).
Second (First Published) Edition. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CARROLL TO HIS CHILD-FRIEND MAGGIE BOWMAN on the half-title: "Maggie Bowman from the Author. Mar. 31. 1890." Maggie Bowman was one of Carrol's child-friends, who was the youngest member of a family most of whom took parts in the performances of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" at the Royal Globe Theatre, December 26, 1888.
"10,000 sets of sheets [for the 1889 First Edition] were printed by Edmund Evans but Dodgson rejected the entire edition in sheets, as the pictures were 'far too bright and gaudy'; he instructed that they should be reprinted (letter to Macmillan, 23 June 1889)." The second edition "appears to differ from the first only in the date 1890, in the substitution of 'Price four Shillings' above the imprint, and in the Advertisements at the end" (Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 216).
[With:] DODGSON. Autograph letter signed ("C.L. Dodgson"), to Mrs. Martin-Harvey, Eastbourne, 3 September 1894. 2 pages, small 8vo. Apologizing for his "brutal candour" when he told her he "didn't care for children of 3!" He mentions sending a copy of the Nursery Alice to make amends. Former child-friend Nellie de Silva was a former child-friend of Dodgson's who later became the actor-manager Sir John Martin-Harvey's wife.
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Second (First Published) Edition. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CARROLL TO HIS CHILD-FRIEND MAGGIE BOWMAN on the half-title: "Maggie Bowman from the Author. Mar. 31. 1890." Maggie Bowman was one of Carrol's child-friends, who was the youngest member of a family most of whom took parts in the performances of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" at the Royal Globe Theatre, December 26, 1888.
"10,000 sets of sheets [for the 1889 First Edition] were printed by Edmund Evans but Dodgson rejected the entire edition in sheets, as the pictures were 'far too bright and gaudy'; he instructed that they should be reprinted (letter to Macmillan, 23 June 1889)." The second edition "appears to differ from the first only in the date 1890, in the substitution of 'Price four Shillings' above the imprint, and in the Advertisements at the end" (Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 216).
[With:] DODGSON. Autograph letter signed ("C.L. Dodgson"), to Mrs. Martin-Harvey, Eastbourne, 3 September 1894. 2 pages, small 8vo. Apologizing for his "brutal candour" when he told her he "didn't care for children of 3!" He mentions sending a copy of the Nursery Alice to make amends. Former child-friend Nellie de Silva was a former child-friend of Dodgson's who later became the actor-manager Sir John Martin-Harvey's wife.