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Alice's adventures under ground : being a facsimile of the original MS. book afterwards developed into "Alice's adventures in Wonderland" / by Lewis Carroll ; with thirty-seven illustrations by the author.

Accession number
PML 7845
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published
London : Macmillan and Co. and New York, 1886 ([London] : Richard Clay and Sons, London and Bungay)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bentham collection, 1911.
Notes
Last page blank.
Printer's name from verso tp.
Publisher's advertisements on penultimate two unnumbered pages.
First ed.
Advertisements, 2 leaves at end.
"Christmas greetings [from a fairy to a child] date Christmas," 1867 p. [96].
The original ms. was bought in 1928 by Mr. Eldridge Johnson of Philadelphia and Moorestown, N.J.
Laid in: An envelope containing newspaper clippings regarding the sale of the original ms.
"An Easter greeting to every child who loves 'Alice', dated Easter," 1876 p. [93]-95.
Description
viii, [8], 95, [5] p. ill., facsim. ; 19 cm.
Provenance
The author's presentation copy to Christina Rossetti, with inscription, in autograph, dated New Year, 1887, on the half-title; George Bentham; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Red publisher's cloth.
Classification
Department