The Nursery Alice

Carroll rejected the entire original 1889 impression of 10,000 copies as 'far too bright and gaudy' and withheld its sale in Britain; roughly 4,000 of the suppressed 1889 sheets were instead exported for sale in America (unpriced title page, dated 1889, Macmillan London imprint), while Macmillan issued a corrected second impression, dated 1890 on the title page, for the British market. It is this March 1890 impression that is collected as the first published edition.