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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll"). Alice's Adventures Under Ground. [Camden, New Jersey: printed printed for Eldridge R. Johnson by Max Jaffe, Vienna, 1936].
8o (186 x 118 mm). 37 illustrations by the author, 14 full-page, mounted photograph portrait of Alice on final leaf; loosely inserted leaf providing alternative ending of the text. Original limp green morocco gilt (spine very slightly darkened, otherwise fine); board slipcase.
In 1936, the American collector Eldridge R. Johnson arranged for this collotype facsimile of the original manuscript (which he purchased in 1928 through Rosenbach at auction) to be printed privately in a very limited run for presentation to friends. It is of the highest quality and reproduces in detail the binding, endpapers, as well as the laid-paper stock.
"It is not too extravagant to say that this production is as near perfection as is possible for a printed facsimile. It has been said that if this facsimile is put beside the original, the only way that they can be distinguished is that the facsimile is in better condition" --Selwyn Goodacre and Denis Crutch in Jabberwocky: The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society (Autumn 1978).
Following Johnson's death in 1944, the manuscript was offered again at auction and was again purchased by Rosenbach, who arranged it to be presented to the British Nation through contributions from American subscribers. VERY RARE. See Diane Waggoner, The Advent of Alice. Philadelphia: The Rosenbach Museum, 1999, no. 10, pp. 17-18.
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In 1936, the American collector Eldridge R. Johnson arranged for this collotype facsimile of the original manuscript (which he purchased in 1928 through Rosenbach at auction) to be printed privately in a very limited run for presentation to friends. It is of the highest quality and reproduces in detail the binding, endpapers, as well as the laid-paper stock.
"It is not too extravagant to say that this production is as near perfection as is possible for a printed facsimile. It has been said that if this facsimile is put beside the original, the only way that they can be distinguished is that the facsimile is in better condition" --Selwyn Goodacre and Denis Crutch in Jabberwocky: The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society (Autumn 1978).
Following Johnson's death in 1944, the manuscript was offered again at auction and was again purchased by Rosenbach, who arranged it to be presented to the British Nation through contributions from American subscribers. VERY RARE. See Diane Waggoner, The Advent of Alice. Philadelphia: The Rosenbach Museum, 1999, no. 10, pp. 17-18.