The Nursery Alice

"I wrote to Macmillan to suggest a new idea: a 'Nursery Edition' of Alice with pictures printed in."
– Lewis Carroll's diary, 15th February 1881

The Nursery Alice, originally published by Macmillan & Co. in 1890, was the very first colour edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It was intended, wrote Carroll, "to be read by Children aged from Nought to...