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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). The Nursery 'Alice'. London: Macmillan, 1889.
4° (256 x 190 mm). Coloured frontispiece and 19 colour illustrations by Evans after John Tenniel. (Light scattered spotting on half-title.) Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards illustrated by Gertrude Thomson, yellow endpapers. Provenance: Vivian Heaphy (inscription fromt the author) -- E. Russell Morris (inscription on a printed leaf WITH AN APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPH after Dodgson of Theo Heaphy, Vivian's mother, tipped-in; sale, Sotheby's, 11-14 November 1929, lot 1440).
RARE FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by Carroll's sister: 'For Vivian - with L. Dodgson's love. Mar. 19, 91.' A FINE COPY; one of twelve copies especially bound as samples for the American market, with the title and advertisements unpriced (WMGC 215a). However, as Dodgson needed copies for presentation and the 1890 edition was not yet ready, very few if any of these actually made it to America, and most stayed with him. These were probably at Chestnuts, Dodgson's house in Guildford. For most of 1891 Dodgson was ill and remained in Oxford. But the recipient's mother, Theo Heaphy, knew the Dodgson sisters, and it is likely that Charles instructed his siblings that they could give the books away. '10,000 sets of sheets 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 p.161). As with the rejected 1865 Alice, the suppressed sheets were eventually sent to America, and published under a New York imprint. The recipient, Vivian, was the daughter of Theodosia Heaphy (b. 1859), one of Dodgson's favourite child-friends and the daughter of the portraitist Thomas Heaphy. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 215a.
4° (256 x 190 mm). Coloured frontispiece and 19 colour illustrations by Evans after John Tenniel. (Light scattered spotting on half-title.) Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards illustrated by Gertrude Thomson, yellow endpapers. Provenance: Vivian Heaphy (inscription fromt the author) -- E. Russell Morris (inscription on a printed leaf WITH AN APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPH after Dodgson of Theo Heaphy, Vivian's mother, tipped-in; sale, Sotheby's, 11-14 November 1929, lot 1440).
RARE FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by Carroll's sister: 'For Vivian - with L. Dodgson's love. Mar. 19, 91.' A FINE COPY; one of twelve copies especially bound as samples for the American market, with the title and advertisements unpriced (WMGC 215a). However, as Dodgson needed copies for presentation and the 1890 edition was not yet ready, very few if any of these actually made it to America, and most stayed with him. These were probably at Chestnuts, Dodgson's house in Guildford. For most of 1891 Dodgson was ill and remained in Oxford. But the recipient's mother, Theo Heaphy, knew the Dodgson sisters, and it is likely that Charles instructed his siblings that they could give the books away. '10,000 sets of sheets 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 p.161). As with the rejected 1865 Alice, the suppressed sheets were eventually sent to America, and published under a New York imprint. The recipient, Vivian, was the daughter of Theodosia Heaphy (b. 1859), one of Dodgson's favourite child-friends and the daughter of the portraitist Thomas Heaphy. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 215a.
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