A new Alice in the old Wonderland

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  • Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1895
By RICHARDS, Anna M.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1895. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated with 67 drawings by the writer's daughter after the originals by John Tenniel. Publisher’s red cloth, gilt device to front board, gilt lettering to spine (lightly sunned); interior quite nice. First edition of this “new” version of Carroll’s classic tale. Here, adifferent girl, also conveniently named Alice, yearns to visit the Wonderland of her childhood stories, and lo and behold she finds a way. There she meets the Cheshire Cat, has tea with the Mad Hatter, and visits all our old (and some new) friends.

Anna Matlack Richards (1835–1900) was a poet, playwright, and author, a Pennsylvania Quaker whose reputation as a poet had been established by the time she was 20. She married William Trost Richards, and both he and their daughter, Anna Richards Brewster, were renowned American artists. A new Alice was “an expanded version of the stories she had invented for her young children, to whom the novel is dedicated, about their favorite storybook world.” A second edition was published in 1896.

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Title

A new Alice in the old Wonderland

Author

RICHARDS, Anna M.

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Publisher

J.B. Lippincott: Philadelphia

Date

1895

Edition

FIRST EDITION


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