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First published in 1889 (not 1890 as stated on the fly leaf here), Carroll intended ‘The Nursery Alice’ to be read ‘by children aged from nought to five’. He re-wrote the original in a simple, abbreviated, form ‘to be thumbed, cooed over, dog-eared and rumpled’ by ‘the dimpled darlings that fill (the) nursery' ; but the principal attraction today probably lies in the twenty coloured illustrations from Tenniel’s originals. The edition here is a facsimile of the 1890 re-printing, its preliminaries oddly re-sequenced, but complete nevertheless save only for a missing frontispiece tissue guard. Whether Carroll’s arch prose revision will appeal to today’s under-fives is debateable and the book may well be more of nostalgic appeal to their (great?) grandparents.
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