The (almost really) Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

For All Lovers of Children

Source: The Lady, March 24, March 31 (both with minor differences as noted), April 14, April 28, May 12, May 19, May 26, 1892 (as part of the Syzygy column)

When I brought out, in 1890, “The Nursery Alice” (a thin 4to book, containing 20 coloured enlargements of Tenniel’s illustrations to “Alice in Wonderland,” with text adapted to very young children, and with a coloured picture-cover, designed by Miss E. G. Thomson), the colours, in the first impression, came out rather brighter than I liked. The second impression was exactly right; and these are now on sale, at 4s. each. I am selling off the over-bright ones, as a “People’s Edition,” at 2s. each (which scarcely covers the cost of production), as long as they last: when they are exhausted, no more can be supplied at so cheap a rate. If not quite artistic enough for your own children, you will find them well suited to give to invalid children among the poor. I shall be very glad to receive the addresses of any Hospitals, or Homes, for Sick Children, where the funds are not adequate for buying them books, and where I have not already presented copies of the various “Alice” books: my present list contains the addresses of 134 such Institutions, whose wants I have already supplied. The publishers are Messrs. Macmillan and Co., 29, Bedford Street, Strand.