DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). The Nursery 'Alice' . London: Edmund Evans for Macmillan, 1890. 4° (253 x 194 mm). Coloured frontispiece and 19 colour illustrations by Evans after John Tenniel (Occasional light marginal soiling.) Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards illustrated by Gertrude Thomson (soiled and scuffed, extremities and corners rubbed); blue quarter morocco slipcase, spine with pictorial onlays. Provenance : Nina [?Alice Gaussen, b.1873] (inscription from the author) -- [sale, Swann Galleries, 29 April 1992, lot 68 -- sale, Sotheby's London, 10 November 1998, lot 68]. Second (FIRST PUBLISHED) edition. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY CARROLL: 'For Nina from the author. Mar. 25 1890' (probably Nina Gaussen). Dodgson first met the Gaussens in February 1885 and sometimes dined with them at Broughton Hall, Lechlade ( Diaries , pp.337 and 441), and this copy is presumably one of those mentioned in his diary entry for 25 March 1890: 'managed to go to London, to write in over a hundred copies of The Nursery Alice ' ( Diary 8 (2004), p.507). '10,000 sets of sheets [of 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)' (WMGC 215). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 216.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). The Nursery 'Alice' . London: Edmund Evans for Macmillan, 1890. 4° (253 x 194 mm). Coloured frontispiece and 19 colour illustrations by Evans after John Tenniel (Occasional light marginal soiling.) Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards illustrated by Gertrude Thomson (soiled and scuffed, extremities and corners rubbed); blue quarter morocco slipcase, spine with pictorial onlays. Provenance : Nina [?Alice Gaussen, b.1873] (inscription from the author) -- [sale, Swann Galleries, 29 April 1992, lot 68 -- sale, Sotheby's London, 10 November 1998, lot 68]. Second (FIRST PUBLISHED) edition. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY CARROLL: 'For Nina from the author. Mar. 25 1890' (probably Nina Gaussen). Dodgson first met the Gaussens in February 1885 and sometimes dined with them at Broughton Hall, Lechlade ( Diaries , pp.337 and 441), and this copy is presumably one of those mentioned in his diary entry for 25 March 1890: 'managed to go to London, to write in over a hundred copies of The Nursery Alice ' ( Diary 8 (2004), p.507). '10,000 sets of sheets [of 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)' (WMGC 215). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 216.
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