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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll"). Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Being a facsimile of the original ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". London: Macmillan, 1886.
8o (183 x 124 mm). 37 illustrations by the author, including 14 full-page. Original gilt-stamped white leatherette, spine gilt-lettered, g.e., with its original plain blue paper protective dust-jacket (very minor wear to extremities, dust jacket split along folds and chipped along spine); full morocco pull-off case.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, IN AN UNRECORDED DELUXE PRESENTATION BINDING, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "E.F. Sampson from the Author Jan. 87." A facsimile of the first draft of Alice's Adventures in the author's hand, and containing his illustrations from which Tenniel's designs were later based. There are about 12,715 words as compared with more than 26,708 in the extended form which was published containing added episodes.
Edward Frank Sampson (1848-1918), was a Christ Church tutor and mathematician, also a long-standing friend and travelling companion of Carroll's; they visited Sandown and Eastbourne together. He worked with Dodgson on the subject of geometric conic sections (see Cohen, p. 383), and succeeded Carroll as the mathematical lecturer at Christ Church. Carroll photographed him in June 1875. Alice's Adventures Under Ground was issued in red cloth, and the only variant binding noted by Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch is Alice Liddell's copy which was bound in white vellum. A presentation copy given to Alice's mother in a binding of black morocco gilt-decorated in the style of the cloth was sold at Christie's New York on 5 December 1991 (lot 225). Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 194.
8o (183 x 124 mm). 37 illustrations by the author, including 14 full-page. Original gilt-stamped white leatherette, spine gilt-lettered, g.e., with its original plain blue paper protective dust-jacket (very minor wear to extremities, dust jacket split along folds and chipped along spine); full morocco pull-off case.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, IN AN UNRECORDED DELUXE PRESENTATION BINDING, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "E.F. Sampson from the Author Jan. 87." A facsimile of the first draft of Alice's Adventures in the author's hand, and containing his illustrations from which Tenniel's designs were later based. There are about 12,715 words as compared with more than 26,708 in the extended form which was published containing added episodes.
Edward Frank Sampson (1848-1918), was a Christ Church tutor and mathematician, also a long-standing friend and travelling companion of Carroll's; they visited Sandown and Eastbourne together. He worked with Dodgson on the subject of geometric conic sections (see Cohen, p. 383), and succeeded Carroll as the mathematical lecturer at Christ Church. Carroll photographed him in June 1875. Alice's Adventures Under Ground was issued in red cloth, and the only variant binding noted by Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch is Alice Liddell's copy which was bound in white vellum. A presentation copy given to Alice's mother in a binding of black morocco gilt-decorated in the style of the cloth was sold at Christie's New York on 5 December 1991 (lot 225). Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 194.