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Item Details
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| Author: |
Carroll, Lewis |
| Title: |
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 |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Macmillan |
| Date: |
1890 |
| Item # : |
208539 |
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| Sale Number |
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424 |
| Lot Number |
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9 |
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| The Library of Roger Wagner |
| Sale Date |
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03/18/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 4800 |
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| Description: |
| [10], 56, [5] + [2] pp. Chromolithographed frontispiece & 19 chromolithographed illustrations in the text from Tenniel's designs. 10x7½, original cloth-backed chromolithgraphed boards designed by E. Gertrude Thomson. |
| Presentation copy inscribed by Carroll to the granddaughter of Queen Victoria on the half-title in blue ink, "Presented to H.R.H. the Princess Alice by the Author, Mar. 25, 1890." With the bookplate of Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline on the front pastedown. This is probably the highest level of a royal presentation copy of this book, the association made even more marvelous by the recipient being an "Alice." There were several trial issues of the book in 1889. Avery 34. With modern custom-made folding cloth box with leather spine label. |
| Condition: |
| Some rubbing and soiling to the boards, top corner of front board creased, corners showing; top right quarter of the second leaf of "An Easter Greeting" at the end of the book torn off, affecting 9 lines of the text, else very good. |
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