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The Nursery Alice variant issue
The Nursery Alice variant issue
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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 Published: London
Publisher:Macmillan
Date Published: 1889
Description:


[10], 56, [5] + [2] pp. Chromolithographed frontispiece & 19 chromolithographed illustrations in the text from Tenniel's designs. (4to) 25.5x19.5 cm (10x7½"), original cloth-backed chromolithgraphed boards designed by E. Gertrude Thomson. Custom box. Second Edition, i.e. First Published Edition.



This is 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 the imprint; this has been over-printed with an ornament and "Price One Shilling" above the block is added.

Condition
Box lightly worn; boards lightly edge worn, small chips to paper of front and rear boards, boards browned; very good.
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The Nursery Alice variant issue

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