Alice's Adventures under Ground
London, The Folio Society, 2008 (facsimile edition, first thus).
Duodecimo, [ii] (colour title and dedication page), 90 pages of facsimile manuscript with 38 illustrations (14 full-page) by Lewis Carroll plus a limitation leaf (verso blank) at the rear.
'Bound by Lachenmaier, Reutlingen, Germany, in full Nigerian goatskin leather', the front cover lettered and ruled in gilt; all edges gilt; a fine copy in the near-fine publisher's gilt-decorated presentation box with a small oval portrait of Alice Liddell (the original Alice), from a photograph by Lewis Carroll, mounted on the front panel.
Number 2738 of 3750 copies of this fine facsimile edition reproducing the original manuscript (British Library Add. MS. 46700). Complete with the companion volume by Sally Brown, 'The Original Alice' (sewn pictorial card covers, 32 pages with a frontispiece and 16 illustrations; a fine copy). [2 items].
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