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Author: Lewis Carroll. (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). Title: Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Being a Facsimile of the Original MS. Book Afterwards Developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co, 1886. First Edition. This book is the first edition, limited to 5000 copies, of the facsimile of Dodgson's original manuscript. Language: Text in English. Size: 7.5 " X 5 ". Pages: viii-95 pages + publisher's catalog. Binding: Attractive and very good original Victorian full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges are gilt. Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown).  Illustrations: Complete with the thirty-seven nice illustrations by Lewis Carroll.  ****  The book: This attractive First Edition is an enchanting facsimile of Lewis Carroll's original manuscript, Alice's Adventures Under Ground, which he created in 1864 as a personal gift for Alice Liddell. It represents the genesis of Carroll's later famous work, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This 1886 First edition captures the original charm and intimacy of the manuscript with Carroll's handwritten text and sketches, offering readers insight into the early development of one of literature's most beloved tales. Lewis Carroll hand-wrote, illustrated, and bound this copy himself and later gave it as a gift to Alice Liddell and her two sisters, Lorina and Edith. A rare find in any condition! With "An Easter Greeting." in type at the end.

First and only edition; later issue with white endsheets, consisting of remaindered sheets put into covers perhaps as late as 1931. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with fading/mottling to cloth, contents toned and with several hinges slightly exposed. In a Very Good dust jacket with light soiling, spine toning, edge wear and a closed tear at the bottom front spine joint. A facsimile of Carroll's manuscript which would be developed into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Octavo, 4 volumes. "Through the Looking-Glass" is the stated "tenth thousand," but the other volumes are first printings. A handsome set, uniformly bound by Riviere and Son in full rich blue polished calf, with all edges gilt, tilt edges and borders, elaborate spine compartments, reddish-brown morocco spine labels, marbled andpapers, and the original cloth bound in at rear in all four volumes. A very near fine set, with the spines gently and evenly faded to lighter blue, but with gilt still vibrant. A few leaves trivially bumped at the bottom edge of "Through the Looking-Glass;" entirely forgiveable. A most pleasing set.

Octavo, 4 volumes. "Through the Looking-Glass" is the stated "tenth thousand, " but the other volumes are first printings. A handsome set, uniformly bound by Riviere and Son in full rich blue polished calf, with all edges gilt, tilt edges and borders, elaborate spine compartments, reddish-brown morocco spine labels, marbled andpapers, and the original cloth bound in at rear in all four volumes. A very near fine set, with the spines gently and evenly faded to lighter blue, but with gilt still vibrant. A few leaves trivially bumped at the bottom edge of "Through the Looking-Glass; " entirely forgiveable. A most pleasing set.

Original red cloth blocked and ruled gilt on upper and lower covers, lettered gilt on spine. All edges gilt. First issue with black coated endpapers. With illustrations in text by the author. The first and only edition of this facsimile of Lewis Carroll's original manuscript of the suppressed book that became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This copy inscribed by the author on half-title "Helen Bagnall from the author, Dec 3/92". Tipped onto front endpaper is a press cutting from 1928 relating to the sale of Carroll's original manuscript and loosely laid in are press cuttings reporting on the death of the author (1898) and the discovery of some unpublished letters (1937). Cloth a little marked with some uneven fading of lower board, spine darkened, inner front hinge cracked at gutter, half-title somewhat browned by offsetting from the laid in press-cuttings. In all other respects a very good sound copy with clean, unmarked text.

Octavo, 4 volumes. "Through the Looking-Glass" is the stated "tenth thousand, " but the other volumes are first printings. A handsome set, uniformly bound by Riviere and Son in full rich blue polished calf, with all edges gilt, tilt edges and borders, elaborate spine compartments, reddish-brown morocco spine labels, marbled andpapers, and the original cloth bound in at rear in all four volumes. A very near fine set, with the spines gently and evenly faded to lighter blue, but with gilt still vibrant. A few leaves trivially bumped at the bottom edge of "Through the Looking-Glass; " entirely forgiveable. A most pleasing set.