212(Ht mm) 171(Wdt mm) 72

Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, Dodgson was a mathematics tutor at Christ Church College, Oxford, where he met Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean, and inspiration for <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i>. The book and its sequel, <i>Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There</i>, have delighted children the world over for 150 years. Sir John Tenniel, born in 1820, was already a renowned illustrator and political cartoonist when he was invited to produce illustrations for <i>Alice</i>. His exquisite engravings for the two <i>Alice </i>books are among the most iconic and best loved images in the world. Lewis Carroll's original adaptation of <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> for younger readers, with the first colour illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. <i>"I wrote to Macmillan to suggest a new idea: a 'Nursery Edition' of Alice with pictures printed in."</i> - Lewis Carroll's diary, 15th February 1881 <i>The Nursery Alice</i>, originally published by Macmillan &amp; Co. in 1890, was the very first colour edition of <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i>. It was intended, wrote Carroll, <i>"to be read by Children aged from Nought to Five. To be read? Nay, not so! Say rather to be thumbed, to be cooed over, to be dogs'-eared, to be rumpled, to be kissed . . ." </i> With this new, younger readership in mind, Carroll rewrote <i>Alice </i>himself, simplifying and abridging the original text, while Sir John Tenniel redrew, enlarged and coloured twenty of his iconic illustrations (with Alice in a yellow dress to reflect the 1890s craze for yellow!). The resulting book is a delightfully engaging experience; readers prompted to interact not only with the story but also with the images and even the physical book itself, in a way that is thoroughly modern. Gloriously reproduced by Macmillan, the original publishers of both Lewis Carroll's <i>Alice </i>books, this edition retains every word of the original <i>The Nursery Alice</i> and restores the exquisite delicacy of Tenniel's artwork - lost in reproductions across the decades - along with the delightful cover artwork by Emily Gertrude Thomson. This gem of a book is the perfect introduction to <i>Alice</i>, and a delight for child and adult readers alike.