Alice's adventures under ground : after Lewis Carroll's original manuscript which later became Alice in Wonderland : The original manuscript of "Alice's adventures underground," upon which "Alice in Wonderland" was based, was written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll at the request of Alice Liddell, a friend's daughter ... At present the original manuscript is in the British Museum.

Accession number: 
PML 352021
Author: 
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Published: 
New York : Panda Prints, [1953].
Description: 
90 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 port. ; 20 cm
Credit: 
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes: 

Cover title. Other title page information and imprint from the leaf preceding the facsimile.
Date from Lovett.
"Printed by Edward Stern & Co. Inc. Phila. / Printed in U.S.A."
The manuscript is British Library Add. Ms. 46700.
"This edition was based on the 1936 privately printed edition commissioned by Eldridge R. Johnson ... [It] includes the complete text of the final page as well as a reproduction of the photograph of Alice Liddell pasted onto the final page and color reproduction of the first two pages, the chapter headings, and the Queen of Hearts"--Lovett.

Binding: 
Tan paper-covered pictorial boards with decorative pattern of green and blue. Pink end papers. In illustrated 21 cm slip case as issued.
Provenance: 
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
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