Lot 253 , Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge [Carroll, Lewis] - The Nursery ‘’Alice’’: Containing Twenty Coloured Enlargements from Tenniel’s Illustrations to ‘’Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’’ with Text Adapted to Nursery Rhymes by Lewi

° Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge [Carroll, Lewis] - The Nursery ‘’Alice’’: Containing Twenty Coloured Enlargements from Tenniel’s Illustrations to ‘’Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’’ with Text Adapted to Nursery Rhymes by Lewis Carroll, with a chromolithographed frontispiece & 19 chromolithographed illustrations in the text from Tenniel’s designs, 4to., with original cloth-backed chromolithographed boards designed by E. Gertrude Thompson, 2nd edition, i.e. 1st published edition. One of several variant issues. In this copy People’s Edition Price Two Shillings’’ is omitted from the top of the title-page; ‘’Price Three Shillings’’ has been added above imprint; this has been over-printed with an ornament and ‘’Price One Shilling’’ above the block is added. Alice’s face, in profile, appears with the Cheshire Cat, on p.34, Macmillan and Co., London, 1889 - a very scarce 1st edition variant.
£700-1,000

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