Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Being a Facsimile of the Original Ms. Book Afterwards Developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
Price: $950.00
Carroll, Lewis. Hard Cover. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. First Edition. Very Good.
With thirty-seven illustrations by the author. First edition, first issue with black coated endpapers (later issued copies were bound with white endpapers). One of 5,000 copies. Publisher's red cloth, with front board lettered and triple-ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, mock turtle portrait in gilt to rear board, all edges gilt, and black coated endpapers. Very good, with light toning to spine, some soiling and bubbling to cloth, boards gently bowed, slightly bumped corners, and front hinge starting. Overall, a pleasing copy of this early incarnation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Taylor 462. Alice's Adventures Under Ground is Charles Dodgson's original telling of what would become the classic nonsensical story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The text, which he wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was first published in a suppressed edition by Macmillan in London in 1865 and then by D. Appleton in New York in 1866. This volume, published in 1886 in a print run of 5,000 copies, is a facsimile of Carroll's original manuscript. In his preface, Carroll explains that he published this manuscript twenty years after the first edition of Alice as "wholly an afterthought, pressed upon me by the 'perhaps too partial friends,'" and decided to donate the proceeds it generated to hospitalized children. Notably, while Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the subsequent Through the Looking Glass would be illustrated by John Tenniel, Alice's Adventures Under Ground contains Carroll's own illustrations - the earliest depictions of the now iconic characters. Item #LC141
