Alice's Adventures Under Ground

Overview:

  • Title: Alice's Adventures Under Ground
  • Author: Lewis Carroll
  • Year: 1886
  • Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
  • Price: 4/-
  • Pages: viii+[8]+95+[4]
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Chapter Book
  • Title Reference: Alice's Adventures Under Ground
  • Notes:
    • First ed., published for the 1886 Christmas gift season
    • "An Easter greeting to every child who loves 'Alice'", dated Easter, 1876, is on pages [93]-95. The poem, "Christmas greetings [from a fairy to a child]", dated Christmas, 1867, is on the verso of p. 95. Works by Lewis Carroll on p. [3]-[4] at end.
    • "Being a facsimile of the original ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's adventures in Wonderland," by Lewis Carroll; with thirty-seven illustrations by the author." (The publisher advertisement, below, and some library records suggest full title Alice's Adventures Under Ground: Being a Facsimile of the Original Ms. Book Afterwards Developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".)
    • Includes 37 pages of illustrations by the author.
    • Data from Trevanion & Dean Auctioneers and from WorldCat (OCLC, below)
    • Price from classified advertisement in The Observer 1886-12-19 p8 and -12-26 p8 "Christmas Gift Books" (newspaper page heading); under "New Books for Children" within two full columns of Macmillan listings, this one "Crown 8vo., 4s."