Notes: | AMDigital Reference: CL C3195 A398 1904. "Record ID: 551013"--Home page. "Catalog Notes: Philadelphia : Henry Altemus Company, [between 1904 and 1936]; 126, [6] p. : col. ill. ; 14 cm; "In adapting the present edition from the original work by Lewis Carroll, only those portions of the text and pictures suitable for very little folks have been used. Althougth the story reads continuously, it is ... but one-sixth the length of the complete edition, and contains only a selection of the illustrations."--Note, verso of title page. Spine title: Alice in Wonderland. Edition from foot of cover. Henry Altemus Company published the Wee books for wee folks series between ca. 1904 and early 1936, when Platt & Munk Co., Inc. bought the series; cf. Publishers' weekly, v. 129 (Mar. 28, 1936), p. 1333. "Printed in the United States of America"--verso of title page. Endpapers have design of characters from the Wee folks series with "This book belongs to--" at the head. Color illustrations produced by a photomechanical process. Color label of the rabbit blowing his horn and holding a scroll pasted to upper cover. Publisher's advertisements, p. [3-6], second count. "Wee books for wee folks ... Alice's adventures in Wonderland. ... Profusely illustrated in colors. Price, 50 cents each ..."--p. [4], second count. American Antiquarian Society copy the gift of Joanne S. Gill, 2014. Inscribed: Alice D. Lippiatt."--Home page. "Catalog Record Note: Catalog Records (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved"--Home page. Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2020. Digitized from a copy held by the American Antiquarian Society and made available by Adam Matthew Digital. American Antiquarian Society Description based on online resource; title from scanned document's title page (viewed on February 26, 2021).
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